A woman has been taken to hospital after a car collided with a tree.

Police were called just before 9.10am today, after reports of the crash in Gravesend Road, near Meopham.

Spokesman Jo Pattison said: "Officers attended the scene alongside South East Coast Ambulance Service where one woman was taken to a hospital with injuries."

The road is currently closed to allow highways teams to deal with a fuel spillage.

South East Coast Ambulance Service spokesman, Richard Airey, said: "An ambulance and first response car were sent to the scene where the woman was treated for facial injuries, before she was taken to Tonbridge Hospital."

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