A CRASH involving a cement mixer which overturned on a car has closed part of Oxford's Eastern Bypass.

Police said a 26-tonne cement mixer and a Vauxhall Astra collided shortly before 10am, just north of the Blackbird Leys overbridge, on the northbound carriageway.

The woman driver and the male front seat passenger in the silver Astra and the man driving the lorry were taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, but suffered only minor injuries.

Police have closed the northbound carriageway from Rose Hill roundabout to Garsington Road.

Fire crews and a specialist recovery vehicle are on the scene, but the road is expected to remain closed for most of the afternoon and possibly into the evening.

The site of the crash is the same spot where there was up to four feet of flood water after heavy rainfall last week and today's heavy rain has disrupted the roads across the county again today.

A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said: "The road is closed and is expected to remain so for several hours while recovery services remove the cement mixer which is lying on its side.

"The northbound carriageway is closed from the Rose Hill roundabout and drivers are advised to avoid the area if at all possible."