AN ELECTRIC car has crashed into a pump at a Herefordshire petrol station and left it completely destroyed.

Crews from Whitchurch Fire Station were called to the scene along the A40 near Symonds Yat, between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth.

Firefighters from Ross-on-Wye Fire Station and Peterchurch joined crews at the crash.

A picture shows a white Tesla electric car that destroyed and crushed the pump at the Shell petrol station.

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The scene was cordoned off by firefighters and hoses were pulled out across the forecourt after the call was made on Monday afternoon (December 19).

The scene was made safe, and nobody was injured, firefighters said.

The Shell petrol station on the A40, a key route from South Wales to the Midlands, is open 24 hours a day and run by MFG.