A woman has been taken to hospital after a moped crash in Norwich.

Police and the ambulance service were called to reports of a crash, involving a Vespa moped, on Thorn Lane, at the junction of Rouen Road, at just before 4pm today.

A spokesman in the police control room said the female rider was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with 'minor injuries' after having fallen off on the 'slippery' road.