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Kent crash

One dead and several injured as car crashes into Costa Coffee shop in Kent

Four people have been taken to hospital with serious injuries.

ONE PERSON HAS died and several are injured after a car crashed into a Costa Coffee shop in England.

Police in Kent said that a car crashed into Costa on the Green, Westerham at 10:30am. More than a dozen ambulances attended the scene.

In a statement, the South East Coast ambulance service confirmed that one person was pronounced dead at the scene.

“Our clinicians treated six patients in total, including one patient who was sadly pronounced as deceased at the scene,” reads the statement.

“Five further patients were treated at the scene and then taken to hospital.

“Our thoughts are with all those involved in and affected by this very sad incident.”

Four of the casualties, two men and two women, were taken to nearby hospitals with serious injuries. Another woman was also taken to the hospital with less serious injuries.

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