A scooter rider has been taken to hospital after colliding into the back of a car this lunchtime outside Kingston station.

Traffic was taken down to one lane at the junction while the man was loaded into an ambulance.

The rider, a man who appeared to be in his 50s, was lying near a pile of shattered glass while his scooter was taken to the side of the road.

A spokesman for London Ambulance said: "At 12.55pm we were called to Wood Street. We sent an ambulance crew and a cycle responder.

"One male patient was taken to Kingston Hospital."

Taxi driver Tony Joyce, 51, said: "There was an estate car sitting there with a big dent on the back of it.

"He [the scooter rider] was laid out flat on the road.

"It looked as if he was being seen to by a doctor and what looked like a midwife and a paramedic on a bicycle within minutes."

"They were waiting 25 minutes for an ambulance."

Mr Joyce said he did not know the cause of the accident but said cab drivers believed the junction was "an accident black spot waiting to happen".

He said: "The speed at which people come around this bend and they get confused by the junction.

"They cross over in front of streams of traffic and the amount of beep beeps we hear."

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