Motorists faced chaos today after a lorry overturned on one of the busiest roads leading into Oxford.

Queues of southbound traffic built up on the A44 Woodstock Road after an articulated lorry overturned at 7.30am, just before the exit to the Loop Farm Roundabout, near the Pear Tree Interchange.

Police set up diversions along Langford Lane, Kidlington, and Frieze Way, as they tried to clear the lorry.

No other vehicles were involved in the accident. The male driver was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, with minor head injuries.

Firefighters from Kidlington were called to clean diesel fuel that had leaked from the lorry, which did not shed its load.