AN elderly motorist has crashed her car into a house in north Suffolk.

The accident happened at around 9.40am today in Wymering Road, Southwold.

The 80-year-old woman was driving a silver Smart car.

She is understood to have collided with a fence before hitting the building, which is not believed to have been seriously damaged.

The woman suffered knee and hand injuries and was taken to the James Paget Hospital by the East of England Ambulance Service.