Two children and one adult were rushed to hospital after being injured in a crash on Tuesday afternoon.
Two cars crashed in Centre Road, Leytonstone, near Wanstead flats at around 4pm, causing severe delays in the area until after 7pm.
A spokesman for London Ambulance Service said three ambulances were sent to the scene near the junction with Lake House Road.
He said: “We treated three people - two children and one man. We took both children to hospital and the man to a major trauma centre as a priority.”
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