A man has been freed from his car after crashing into a parked car.

Emergency services were called to the incident on the Chapel Break Road and New Road Junction, in Bowthorpe, at 8.25am this morning.

The man was freed by fire crews from Earlham and Carrow using a heavy rescue pump to release him before being taken to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

A spokesman for the ambulance service said: 'We were called to reports of a road traffic collision today at 8.41am.

Two ambulances and an ambulance officer attended the scene.

'The patient was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in a non-life threatening condition.'

The crash involved a Nissan Micra and Nissan Qashqai.

No-one else is thought to have been injured.

First Buses had reported diversions on its number 21 and 22 services while the cars were recovered.

The road was reopened at 10.30am.