A man had to be airlifted to hospital after a farm truck he was driving overturned in a ditch and landed on him this afternoon.

The man, who was in his 30s, suffered crushing injuries to his abdomen and chest in the incident, which happened on farmland near Cranbrook at just after noon today.

A paramedic in a car and the South East Coast Ambulance Service's Hazardous Area Response Team attended the scene at Cranbrook Road, Biddenden, along with a land ambulance, and he was freed, before being treated.

He was then taken to St George's Hospital in London by the air ambulance.