Person in hospital after car careers over wall and flips onto footpath

A person has been taken to hospital after a runaway car careered over a wall and landed on its roof in Fife.

Emergency services were called to Chapel Place, in Inverkeithing, at around 8.25am on Thursday after receiving reports of a one-car crash.

It was reported from the scene that the car rolled out from a garage above the wall before crashing onto the footpath below.

Two ambulances were dispatched and one person was taken to Victoria Hospital following the crash.

Their current condition is unknown at this stage.

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Pictures taken from the crash showed police and ambulance services in attendance after closing the street to the public. The road has since reopened.

A Scottish Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We received a call at 8:48am to attend a road traffic collision on the B981 in Inverkeithing near Chapel Place.

“Two ambulances were dispatched to the scene and one patient was transported to Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy.”

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