A learner moped driver and a family of four were injured during a crash yesterday afternoon.

The accident happened at around 2pm on Monday, August 4, southbound on Ruxley Lane, in West Ewell, about 200 yards from the junction with Kingston Road, just before Pams Way.

Matt Sedgwick, of Epsom, contacted the newspaper to say he was driving the car that was hit by the moped.

He said he was driving his partner and two sons, in his Burgandy Vauxhall Zafira, to the LA Fitness centre, on Ruxley Lane, to go swimming.

He said he indicated left to turn into the centre and then stopped as another car, driven by a woman, was reversing from a driveway.

Mr Sedgwick said it was then that the moped crashed into the back of his car.

The 31-year-old said: "The moped driver smashed through the back windscreen of my car and then fell onto the floor which is where he was when the ambulance came to the scene.

"We were all covered in glass.

"We don't know how fast the moped was going."

He said a lady driving a black car in the opposite direction stopped to help at the scene as he understood she had medical training. 

Another woman, who was travelling in a car behind the moped, also stopped to comfort the moped driver.

Mr Sedgwick said he and his family spent four hours in hospital following the accident and that he had slight whiplash. 

He said his eldest son was dizzy and left feeling sick after the crash and that his other son had a cut on his foot.

Mike Underwood, 48, who drove past the scene five minutes after the accident, said the moped had ‘L’ plates on it.

Two ambulances and Surrey Police attended the scene.

A South East Coast Ambulance Service spokesman said the moped driver, a 19-year-old man, was taken to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, as a priority by road, for injuries to his knee.

He said a woman was treated for a sore back at the scene and a child for a cut caused by glass.

Ruxley Lane was closed following the incident.