RUSH-HOUR traffic came to a halt causing chaos in Abingdon when a motorcyclist was trapped underneath a car after a crash in Ock Street near the Brewery Tap pub.

Police closed the road for an hour from 6pm on Tuesday while firefighters worked to release the trapped man.

Firefighters using hydraulic lifting gear raised the car and released the man who was taken by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. His condition is not known.