London Ambulance Service has apologised after its paramedics took more than an hour to arrive at a crash between a car and a motorbike.

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The crash, which happened at about 6.15pm yesterday in Ewell Road, Surbiton, at the junction with Derby Road, left one person with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Paramedics were called at 6.19pm but arrived at 7.26pm.

An LAS spokesman said: "We were called at 6.19pm on Wednesday, November 25, to reports of a road traffic collision on Ewell Road.

"From the information provided to us by the caller, the patient was conscious, breathing and alert.

"An ambulance crew arrived at the scene at 7.26pm. We treated a man at the scene and took him to a hospital in south-west London.

"We are sorry we could not be there sooner."