A CAR mounted a pavement and crashed into a wall and fence after a driver suffered a "medical episode".

The crash happened on Warrington Road, in Prescot, on Monday afternoon, May 13, at around 4.20pm.

Police said a Lexus car had mounted a pavement and collided with a wall and fence.

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A spokeswoman added it is understood that the driver, a man, had suffered a medical episode.

A Merseyside Police spokeswoman said they were called to "a one vehicle RTC (road traffic collision) on Warrington Road at around 4.20pm in which a Lexus car mounted a pavement and collided with a wall and fence".

She added: "It appears the male driver had a medical episode."