This image of a road traffic collision in wood Lane, Dagenham, was submitted via iWitness by Post reader Ross Tomlin

Two adults and a toddler were freed from the wreck of their car after they smashed through a wall and into the side of a building in Dagenham.

A collision between two cars at the junction of Wood Lane and Five Elms Road in Dagenham took place at around 11am.

One of the cars - containing the injured people - crashed through a small wall and into the side of a block of flats.

Emergency services were called to the scene.

The man and the woman were taken to hospital with suspected neck and back injuries at around midday after fire officers cut through the roof of their car. The child - believed to be aged two or three - was uninjured.

Dagenham fire station manager Paul McClenaghan said: “They are very, very lucky to be alive. Had they made any harder contact with the wall, we would have been cutting two dead people out of the car.”

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: “Our staff treated three patients who were taken to Queen’s Hospital. That includes a 26-year-old man with back pain and facial injuries and a 20-year-old woman with neck and head pain. Both were taken to hospital as a priority.

“The child was taken to hospital as a precaution.”