A car has overturned near a school in Harold Hill, with one person taken to hospital.

The car crashed into a parked vehicle and flipped over in Dagnam Park Drive, near Drapers' Pyrgo Priory School, blocking half the road.

Emergency services attended the scene, including two fire engines, and a man was taken to hospital with "minor injuries".

No one was trapped in the vehicle.

The road was closed after the incident at around 7am, but was back open just before 9am once the police had moved the car.

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A spokesperson for the London Fire Brigade said: "We were called at 06.57 this morning to a road traffic collision in Dagnam Park Drive, RM3.

"One car had collided with a parked vehicle.

"No one was trapped but one man was taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews.

"Two fire engines attended the scene."