THREE men had to be freed from their car after it overturned on a motorway slip road.

Their Peugeot flipped onto its roof as they were travelling on the link between the M25 and M40.

The men left the M25 at junction 16 to join the south Bucks stretch of the M40 when the accident happened yesterday morning.

Firefighters from Gerrards Cross, Beaconsfield and Langley, Berkshire were called to the scene at 10am and released the men from the crushed car.

They administered first aid to the driver and his passengers before paramedics arrived.

Denis Melia, watch manager at Gerrards Cross fire station, said: “We gave initial first aid and oxygen to all three men while the ambulance was on its way.

"As a precaution we put a collar on the driver and put him on to a spinal board.”