A schoolboy was hospitalised after a car collided with him on a residential road. 

Metropolitan Police and members of the London Ambulance Service attended the scene of the crash in Dagenham on Friday (October 20).

A Met Police spokesperson said: "Police were called at 07:50hrs on Friday, 20 October to reports of a collision at Woodward Road, Dagenham.

"Officers attended. At the scene a car had collided with a schoolboy.

"The child was taken by London Ambulance Service to an east London hospital where his injuries were not life threatening."

The driver of the car stopped at the scene and no arrests have been made. 

Concerned Facebook users reported Woodward Road having been blocked off between Flamstead Road and Arden Crescent. 

One user claimed the boy was trapped under the car, adding: "I stopped and lifted the car by carjack to release him before ambulance and fire brigade arrived… most annoying thing was that so many people around was just filming……"

A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called at 7.49am on Friday 20 October to reports of a road traffic collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Woodward Road, Dagenham.

“We sent an ambulance crew, a medic in a fast response car and members of our hazardous area response team (HART) to the scene.

“Our first medics arrived in around four minutes.

“We treated a child at the scene before taking them to a major trauma centre as a priority.”