A CYCLIST has been taken to hospital after an accident with a car near Alexandra Palace Station this morning.

The 47-year-old man taken by ambulance to hospital after the crash with a Vauxhall Corsa at the junction of Mayes Road and Station Road at about 8am.

In a statement, the London Ambulance Service said: "We sent an ambulance and responder crew to the scene and took the patient as a priority to the Royal London Hospital."

Road closures are in place in the junctions between Station Road and Park Avenue, Cumberland Road and Park Avenue, and at the roundabout at the junction of Western Road and Station Road.