A BMW and a bus collided at rush hour – and the crash caused the car to plough into a parked van.

A woman who was driving the BMW had to be taken to hospital with a head injury following the incident at the junction of Borough Road and Westfield Street, at 5.15pm on Wednesday, April 26.

A police spokesman said that after the impact the car struck a parked van near the Enterprise car hire forecourt.

The driver of the bus was briefly trapped because of an electrical fault.