A man is in hospital after the second serious traffic accident in the same road within 36 hours.

Firefighters cut the roof of a silver saloon to free a man with serious injuries after the car he was travelling in plowed into the back of a City Link courier van on Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, at 9.40am on Saturday morning.

The crash happened on the Clapton-bound lane between Markhouse Road and Orient Way, yards from where a pedestrian suffered fatal head injuries when he was hit by a car on Thursday evening.

More details to follow.