A man was taken to Noble’s Hospital after a car crash in Peel.

Emergency services attended the scene of a crash on Oak Road at about 9.30pm yesterday (Friday) involving an orange coloured Kia Picanto car that came to a rest in a garden hedge belonging to a house on Oak Drive and Fuchsia Avenue.

Members of the public initially helped the man who was later extracted from his car by emergency crews and taken to the Douglas Hospital.

A police spokesman said: ’Police are continuing with their enquiries and request any witnesses who saw this vehicle in the area around this time, who have not already been spoken to by the police, contact police headquarters on 631212 and ask for an officer from the roads policing unit.’