A man is in hospital with serious injuries after being hurled through the air when his motorcycle collided with a car and caught fire.

The accident on busy Reigate Road, at the Drift Bridge, in Nork, at 4.45pm yesterday, also injured a person in the car, which smashed into a truck which then rammed a garage.

Surrey Police said they were called to reports that a motorcycle and a number of other vehicles had been involved in a collision.

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Watch commander Gareth Arnold, of Epsom fire station, said the motorcyclist collided with the car which then collided with a "small stationary pick-up truck" which was parked in a driveway of a house.

He said the pick-up truck then crashed into the house's garage, while the motorcycle caught alight in the road and a fuel fire from leaked petrol from the motorcycle had also started in the street.

Mr Arnold said: "It was quite a big incident in such a small area.

"We were dealing with a casualty in the road, another casualty in a car, the motorcycle alight and a running fuel fire down the road.

"It caused traffic chaos as it’s a busy road."

The South East Coast Ambulance Service said an air ambulance, two ambulances and three ambulance cars all went to the accident.  

The motorcyclist was taken to St George's Hospital, in Tooting, by road, with the air ambulance team - which Mr Arnold said had landed near Nescot College - helping to treat him en route.    

He had injuries to his head, neck, thorax, abdomen and arm.

The fireman said the woman driving the car was "badly shaken with head injuries" and was taken to hospital by road.

A man who lives in Reigate Road said the crash had happened right outside his house.

He said: "We don't know exactly what happened. My wife and daughter were in the back garden and heard a loud bang.

"A motorcyclist was thrown from the bike and he ended up some way away from the scene of the accident.

"The bike was in flames. "My wife went out to the motorcyclist, she was lying there trying to help him until the ambulance arrived.

"We didn't see it happen."

The A240 was closed in both directions at Nork until 11.30pm last night.

Anyone with information should call the police on 101 or report it online at my.surrey.police.uk/splonlinereportingweb quoting the reference number P15107041.

Did you see the crash? Call Hardeep Matharu on the newsdesk on 020 8722 6346.