A man had to be taken to hospital after his car crashed into the wall of Maidstone Prison.

The 18-year-old suffered a chest injury and neck pain after crashing the car into the wall in Well Road, Maidstone, at 3.10am this morning.

Fire crews from Maidstone used hydraulic cutting equipment to free him from his car.

Two ambulances and the air ambulance were called to the scene, along with police, and he was taken to King's College Hospital in London by land ambulance.