A visiting family were taken to hospital after a taxi they were travelling in crashed yesterday afternoon.

According to a police spokesman, the accident took place on Somerset Road, Sandys, near the junction with Beacon Hill Road at about 3.30pm.

The taxi was in a collision with another car and ended up on its side.

Although neither driver was injured, the taxi’s passengers — believed to be a 52-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman and a girl aged ten who are holidaying on the Island — were taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital by ambulance for medical assessment before being discharged.

Inquiries regarding this collision are ongoing and any witnesses are encouraged to contact Pc Latasha Gibson at the Somerset Police Station 234 1010.