A woman was cut free from her car after a crash on the M20 this morning.

Two fire crews raced to the scene after the smash on the coastbound carriageway between Junctions 3 for Borough Green and and 4 for Leybourne.

Police, ambulance crews and Highways Agency officers were also called out to the accident, which happened at 10.15am.

The car is reported to have left the road, gone up an embankment, through a wooden fence and landed on top of a quarry near the sandpits end of the M26/M20 sliproad.

Special blocks were used to stabilise the car, which allowed paramedics to help release the patient.

The lane one sliproad was closed so a recovery vehicle could reach the car.

The woman was taken to hospital with what has been described as a "slight injury".

No other vehicles were involved in the crash.