Three people have been taken to hospital after a head-on crash in Walderslade last night.

The smash - between a Jaguar and a Trooper 4x4 vehicle - happened in Robin Hood Lane, Chatham, at shortly after 6pm.

There people in the 4x4 - a man, a woman and a teenager in the back seat - suffered minor injuries and had to be taken to hospital.

The smash closed the road for about 45 minutes while the emergency services, including firefighters, dealt with the crash scene.

A crew from Medway fire station helped paramedics in getting the injured people out of their car.

A spokesman said they did not need to cut them out, but helped by getting the doors to the vehicle open.