The weather has wreaked havoc for drivers, with several accidents closing a key road.

The A299 Canterbury Road East is closed between Cliffsend and Minster, and Minster and Monkton, due to at least three separate crashes.

Officers were called shortly before 9am to the coastbound carriageway of the A299 Thanet Way to reports of an overturned car just past the Whitstable exit.

Further crashes involving one vehicle have been reported on the same stretch of road.

The South East Coast Ambulance Service and Kent Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene.

Three people reported injuries and were treated by paramedics.

Police were also called to the Londonbound carriageway near the Minster roundabout on the A299 at about 8.36am, following reports of three crashes on the stretch of road. No injuries were reported.

The Londonbound road is closed between Minster and Monkton while vehicles are recovered and the road surface is treated.

There was also an accident involving a car on the Londonbound carriageway near Herne Bay at 8.20am. No injuries were reported and the vehicle is being recovered.

A three-vehicle crash in Hengist Way, Ramsgate shortly before 9am has meant the road is closed from the Cliffs End roundabout. No injuries have been reported and officers are at the scene.

Meanwhile in Herne Bay, police were called at about 9am to the A299 Thanet Way coastbound by the Thornden Wood junction.

There were two crashes involving single cars, one of which had hit the central reservation. No injuries have been reported. A rolling roadblock is on while work is ongoing to recover the vehicle.

Herne Bay resident Andrew Eve said he witnessed seven crashes on his commute into work along a stretch of the main road between the BP petrol station near Dargate and Herne Bay.

“First of all there was a Volkswagen Beetle that had crashed quite badly into a tree at the Whitstable turnoff,” he said.

“It was facing the wrong way and was quite smashed up.

“Further along, there was a blue Citroen on its roof and a fire engine was there seeing to that one.”

In total, Mr Eve said he saw 15 cars involved in the seven incidents along the Thanet Way.

“I stopped for just about everybody who looked like they may have needed help, but they were all okay,” he continued.

“There was pretty much ice everywhere; the roads looked okay, but they weren’t.”