A MAN and a woman were trapped in their car after it overturned on the M20 today. The accident happened at about 1.10pm on the coastbound carriageway of the motorway at Larkfield, near Maidstone.

Firefighters had to use hydraulic cutting equipment to free the couple from the wreckage of the car. Both were taken to Maidstone Hospital, one by the Kent Air Ambulance.

It is not yet known how the accident happened.