A man has been taken to hospital after his car overturned in Flamstead this morning.

Emergency services were called at 7.16am to Chequers Hill, where a red Ford Fiesta had overturned and gone down an embankment.

A man in his 50s had to be freed from his car by firefighters and suffered leg iunjuries.

An ambulance officer, ambulance and the air ambulance all arrived at the scene, and took the man to Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

The road was closed while the car was recovered.