Crashes on roads in the region have kept ambulance crews busy.

Ambulance crews had a busy day across the region today (Saturday), with the wintry weather continuing to cause problems on the roads.

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The East of England Ambulance Service received 54 calls to crashes across the region, a dozen of which involved casualties who needed to be taken to hospital for further treatment.

Two of those where patients were taken to hospital were in Norfolk and both involved people who had come off a motorcycle or moped.

At 3.03am East of England Ambulance Service crews were called to Lawn Avenue in Great Yarmouth where a man had come off his motorbike. He was taken to James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston with leg injuries.

And at 9.40am crews were called to Lowestoft Road in Gorleston where a 20-year-old man who had fallen off his moped after hitting an icy patch of road.

The man was also taken to James Paget University Hospital, with a suspected collarbone injury.

Steve Western, a forecaster at the University of East Anglia-based weather service, WeatherQuest, said icy temperatures are again expected tonight and there is danger of freezing rain making roads treacherous across East Anglia from about 6am tomorrow.

Mr Western said: “After about 9am tomorrow the temperature will rise to 3C or 4C and that will spell the end of this very cold weather. By Tuesday we will be seeing temperatures of 6C to 8C.”