A child was rushed to hospital after a crash in Chislehurst yesterday afternoon.

Emergency services were called to reports of a road traffic collision on Centre Common Road at 1.38pm.

A spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said: ""We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car and an incident response officer to the scene, with the first of our medics arriving within three minutes.

"We treated a boy at the scene and took him to a hospital in south London."

The road was closed at the A222 Bromley Lane and the scene was cleared by 3pm.

Bus routes 61, 160, 161, 162 and 273 were on diversion.

Contact helen.corbett@london.newsquest.co.uk

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