A woman was taken to hospital after crashing her car into a lamp-post in Chatham yesterday.

Emergency services were called to Shipwrights Avenue at about 6.15pm after the Chrysler Voyager flattened the pole.

Firefighters from Medway station helped paramedics get the woman, thought to be in her mid-30s, out of the vehicle as she was complaining of back pain.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident and the woman was taken by ambulance to Medway Maritime Hospital.

A Kent Fire and Rescue Service spokesman, said: "We were on the scene for about 40 minutes and the lamp-post was flattened.

"It was still live so we had to wait for the electric company to come and make it safe."