A LITTLE boy was injured after a car flipped from the road and ended up wedged on its side between a house and a garden wall.

The three-year-old, and a male driver 30, required hospital treatment after the incident at around 8.45pm on Sunday.

Police have launched an investigation after the collision at the roundabout of Newbiggin Road and North Seaton Road in Ashington.

A spokesman for Northumbria Police said: “A white Ford Focus collided with the roundabout and overturned. The vehicle then came to a stop in the front garden of a nearby house after destroying the garden wall.”

The driver was taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough with serious spinal injuries while the boy was taken to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington with minor injuries.

The occupants of the house were uninjured.

An investigation is ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding the collision, and officers have now asked anyone who saw the incident, or who was in the area and may have dashcam footage, to come forward. People with information can call 101.