A DRIVER was hospitalised and arrested after his car overturned outside a cemetery.

All three people inside the car were hospitalised after the crash in Old Church Road, Chingford, outside Chingford Mount Cemetery on Sunday (July 24).

No other vehicle was involved with police responding to a call just before 4.30pm.

A woman and two men remain in hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

The two men in the vehicle were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

A quantity of a substance believed to be a Class A drug was also recovered.

The area was cordoned off while emergency services treated the passengers.

A London Air Ambulance also attended.