A FAMILY of five were taken to hospital after a car accident near Bromley North train station at the weekend.

Paramedics were called to help three children and their parents after the smash in Tweedy Road.

A woman and her young child in the other car were also treated.

Bromley firefighters also administered first aid at the scene of the crash, which happened at 2pm on Sunday.

In a separate incident earlier in the day, an elderly woman was taken to hospital with a broken leg after the car in which she was a passenger ran into a lamppost in Bromley Common.