A van driver was miraculously able to walk away from the wreckage of his vehicle after it hit a telegraph pole and flipped onto its side.

The motorist was injured late last night in the accident along the 30mph Beltinge Road in Herne Bay.

Witnesses to the aftermath of the crash told how the man was able to pull himself from the heavily-damaged van and walk to a waiting ambulance.

Pictures taken at the scene show the vehicle on its side next to the telegraph pole, which was knocked to the ground.

An off-duty paramedic was among those who offered support to the driver as he remained in the vehicle.

Police, ambulance crews and firefighters were called at about 10pm, and an air ambulance landed on The Downs, off Beacon Hill.

But the helicopter was not needed, and the man was taken by road to Ashford's William Harvey Hospital with injuries described by police as not life-threatening.