AN elderly man is in hospital being treated for injuries after a car flipped on its roof.

Firefighters fresh from training in dealing with road accidents put their learning in to practice just hours later, when they were called to a crash in Bradshaw Brow.

Crews from Bolton North and Horwich were called to cut a man free from a car this afternoon after the vehicle went out of control in a driveway and hit a tree in a garden.

The crash flipped the vehicle on to its roof and the car came to rest on part of a garden wall.

The accident happened at around 2.30pm and the driver, believed to be in his late 80s, was taken to hospital.

Firefighters had to cut away the steering wheel to release the driver, who is believed to be in his late 80s.

Thankfully they had just been training up in how to attend this kind of crash a few hours before.

A fire spokesman said: “We had been on training earlier dealing with type of incident.”

The man found to be conscious and breathing and was taken to hospital by ambulance. He is understood to have been left with cuts and bruises after the incident.