A 12-YEAR-OLD boy has been taken to hospital after a car accident in Croydon Road, Keston, this afternoon.

The accident is said to have taken place at around 3pm between Oakley Road and Five Elms Road.

Croydon Road is currently closed both ways with bus route 353 on diversion.

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at 3.23pm to Croydon Road to reports of a road traffic collision.

"A single responder in a car, an ambulance and a duty officer were all sent to the scene.

"One patient was treated; a 12-year-old boy for a head injury.

"He was taken as a priority to King's College Hospital."

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