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Driver cut free from car after crash into garden

Newton Abbot Fire Station Fire crews work to stabilise a carNewton Abbot Fire Station
The car slid across a grass verge and through a fence

Firefighters cut a driver free from a car which crashed into a garden in Devon.

A crew was called to Kingsteignton after the car left the slipway approaching Ware Barton roundabout, Devon and Somerset fire service said.

The vehicle slid across a grass verge, through a fence and landed in the garden of a house, partly on its side.

The injured driver was "pinned in the car", the service said.

Newton Abbot Fire Station An overturned car in KingsteigntonNewton Abbot Fire Station
The injured driver was stretchered to an ambulance

While paramedics cared for the driver, fire crews from Newton Abbot, Middlemoor and Torquay secured the vehicle and used cutting equipment to remove a door.

The driver was released and stretchered to an ambulance.

The extent of the driver's injuries has not been divulged.

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