FIREFIGHTERS from Gloucestershire cut an injured woman from her car following an accident.

The fire service received calls to a road traffic collision, Suffolk Road in Cheltenham at 11.24am yesterday (May 27).

Crews from the Cheltenham East and West fire stations attended with a total of ten firefighters. 

The incident involved one car with one adult woman trapped.  The crews remained on scene for almost one hour and extricated the female from the vehicle. 

She was injured and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance once she was released.