A LORRY driver has been taken to hospital after a crash on the B1062 near Flixton.

Police, fire and ambulance services were called at around 10.30am to reports of the blue articulated lorry on its side.

The lorry had hit a tree while travelling towards Homersfield from Flixton.

The East of England Ambulance Service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: 'The man who we believe to be in his 40s sustained a head injury and following treatment by the ambulance crews, he was taken to the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital for further care.'

By lunchtime the road was still blocked as efforts were made to recover the lorry.