A driver in his 60s has been taken to hospital after his car overturned on a Bristol road.

Emergency services were called to Wellington Hill West around 6.15pm on Tuesday February 6, after reports a car had flipped upside down.

Reports from people in the busy residential road said they had heard loud bands and a crashing noise.

The car had flipped onto its roof, and a crowd had gathered around the vehicle.

Firefighters arrived to help free the driver who had been trapped in the wreckage of the upside-down car.

A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said a doctor and nurse were passing by when they stopped to help the driver at the scene.

He was bleeding from the head and had suffered injuries to his side, but was responding to calls. The airbags had deployed and the driver was conscious by the time paramedics got there.

The driver was taken to Southmead Hospital for treatment. The police spokesman said the injuries were “not life-threatening or life changing”, but he had to be taken to hospital for a medical check-up.

Initial reports were that the driver had hit a stationary car and a tree, before the car, which police said was a Nissan, flipped onto its roof.

The road was closed for several hours, and one lane was still partially blocked after the incident near Bishopthorpe Road, near the Beehive pub.

The road reopened shortly before 9pm.