A car ended up on its roof, leaving a man trapped after an accident on the A249.

The vehicle flipped over on the Sheppey-bound carriageway near the Kemsley turn-off at the Grovehurst roundabout at about 12.45pm.

The dual-carriageway was blocked and police, fire crews and medics, including the air ambulance, were called.

VIDEO: The scene of the crash

The road was closed in both directions, but has since reopened.

Traffic queued in both directions while firefighters freed the trapped man, thought to be aged 74, and passed him over to ambulance crews.

The Kent Air Ambulance landed on the dual-carriageway.

Mat Barney, a crew manager from Sittingbourne Fire Station, said: "It was a 74-year-old male in a white BMW.

"It hit the barrier between the sliproad and the main carriageway and suffered multiple rolls and came to rest on its roof."

Firefighters used hydraulic tools to prise open the door to help get the man, who was the driver, out of the car.

A spokesman for the South East Coast Ambulance Service said he was taken to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham but his injuries were not thought to be serious.

Highways England said the road had reopened at about 2.45pm.