TRAFFIC was brought to a standstill for miles around Fyfield yesterday afternoon after a horsebox was in collision with a car.

The accident outside the A4 Filling Station created traffic chaos for more than an hour and a half while the road was cleared.

Stationary traffic tailed back into Marlborough and almost as far as Beckhampton while the emergency services dealt with the accident.

PCSO John Bordiss said it appeared that a Ford Fiesta driven by a local man was waiting to turn across the road into the filling station when a horse transporter lorry clipped its rear.

The officer said: "It seems that the horse transporter hit the car up the rear end, pirouetting the Fiesta around.

"As the Fiesta spun it clipped a four by four coming in the other direction and it ended up facing the other way."

There were fears that the car driver, a man in his mid 40's from the Marlborough area, might have received spinal injuries.

He remained in his seat while fire fighters from Marlborough cut the roof off the Fiesta so that he could be safely extricated and placed on a spinal stretcher.

PCSO Bordiss said it turned out that the car driver, who was taken to Great Western Hospital, had relatively minor injuries.

The road remained closed from 3.15pm to about 4.20pm while the damaged vehicles were removed.

The transporter was carrying one horse that was unharmed and the driver also escaped injury.

The four by four vehicle received only minor damage and its occupants were unhurt.