EMERGENCY services were called to a crash on a busy road in Greenock.

The accident happened yesterday afternoon around 3.30pm at the Inverkip Street roundabout at the cemetery entrance.

Two ambulances and police officers were on the scene.

Sergeant Laura Stewart said the accident involved three cars and added that three people were taken to hospital as a precaution — an elderly woman, a one-year-old child and a three-year-old child.

Vehicles were damaged in the collision, with one of them moved into the cemetery access road.

No one has been charged.