A 79-YEAR-OLD man was taken to hospital after his car crashed into six other vehicles on on Festival Drive in Ebbw Vale.

The driver was taken to Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, after the incident which police were called to at 3.05pm yesterday.

The Merthyr Tydfil man was driving a silver Mercedes and is thought to have collided with a row of parked cars.

No one  else was injured in the crash.