A man was rushed to hospital today after his car left the road, went through a fence, hit a tree and then crashed into a telegraph pole.

Emergency services were called to the single vehicle collision involving a Mazda on the A1101 at Icklingham at 1.50am.

Firefighters cut the roof off the vehicle in order to free the trapped driver, who is in his 30s.

A spine board was used to get him out of the car, a spokesman for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said.

The man was taken to West Suffolk Hospital with “multiple injuries”, which were not life-changing or life-threatening.

No-one else is believed to have been hurt during the crash.

Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service dispatched two crews from Bury St Edmunds and one each from Mildenhall and Newmarket.

The brigade declared the incident under control at 3am.

As well as a crew from the East of England Ambulance Service, a critical care team from the Magpas Air Ambulance charity was also sent to the scene in a rapid response vehicle.

Magpas doctor Andy Lindsay and paramedic Oliver Robinson arrived at 2.35am and gave the driver high level pain relief.

A spokesman for the charity said: “They had been called to treat a patient who was trapped - after a car had left the road and collided with a fence, then a tree and a telegraph pole.”