Four people have been taken to hospital after a car crash in Tolworth this afternoon.

At about 12.30pm, emergency services rushed to Hook Road, near the Ace of Spades roundabout, where a gold Ford Mondeo collided with a silver Mercedes C220.

A London Ambulance Service spokesman confirmed the Mondeo driver had to be lifted out of her car by the fire brigade, which used the jaws of life to cut the roof off, after the car crashed into a wall outside a house in the road.

A passenger in the Mercedes was rushed to St George’s Hospital, Tooting, after paramedics diagnosed a serious head injury.

The two drivers and a baby were taken to Kingston Hospital with less serious injuries.

Eyewitness Kelly Argent said: “Everyone was amazed when we saw an ambulance helicopter land in the middle of the road.

“Hook Road was full of ambulances, fire engines and police cars. In one of the cars was a local mother who was with her baby.”

Hook Road was closed at 1.12pm, with cars and bus services diverted down Kingsdowne Road.

A Kingston police spokesman said Kingston Council staff sent a crew to the scene at 1.56pm to assist the emergency services.