An elderly driver was rushed to hospital after she overturned her car crashing into a bollard outside a primary school in Belmont.

Firefighters pulled the pensioner from the vehicle after flipped over in Avenue Road, near Avenue Primary School, shortly before midday today.

She has been rushed to a south London hospital.

One witness said: “I got there just after the accident, and was told that an old woman in her car collided with a bollard.

“Ambulances and fire engines were there super quickly.

“There was a pool of blood.”

Firefighters from Wallington, West Norwood and Wimbledon stations were called to the scene at 11.55am.

A spokeswoman for the London Fire Brigade said: “We were called at 11.54am to a car in collision with street furniture. A car had flipped onto its roof.

“Engines from West Norwood, Wallington and Wimbledon were sent to the scene.”

A firefighter from Wallington fire station confirmed the woman was elderly.