A WOMAN had to be cut free from a three-car smash in Greenstead this afternoon.

Fire crews were called to the Hawthorn Avenue junction with Forest Road at 2.12pm today.

A woman, aged in her sixties, was "medically trapped" in her car.

Crews freed her shortly before 3pm and she was left in the care of medics at the scene.

The extent of her injuries is not yet know.