Prince Philip has crashed a car near Sandringham Estate in the United Kingdom, Buckingham Palace has confirmed.
The 97-year-old was uninjured. The Duke of Edinburgh was driving a Range Rover and was turning out of an intersection when he collided with a Kia carrying three people including a mother and her baby.
According to eyewitnesses, the Duke's car overturned and they helped to free him from the wreckage, the BBC reported. He was conscious but "very, very shocked", they said.
Witness Roy Warne was first on the scene and told The Sun, "I saw the car flip and thought f...... hell.
Warne helped the Duke get out of the car,"I looked down and had the Prince's blood on my hands. All I could think is, thank goodness there wasn't more."
The Duke was breathalysed by police and told them that he had been "dazzled by the sun".
The BBC's royal correspondent, Nicholas Witchell, added that two people in the other vehicle were treated for minor injuries.
The crash happened about 3pm on Thursday, local time, a Buckingham Palace spokeswoman confirmed.
"The Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a road traffic accident with another vehicle this afternoon," it said in a statement.
"The Duke was not injured. The accident took place close to the Sandringham Estate."
The spokeswoman would not comment on who Philip's passenger was but it is likely the Duke was travelling with his close protection officer.
Reuters reported that the Duke did not go to hospital and was now back at Sandringham.
Photographs of the wreckage appeared to show that the car had been hit on its passenger side, with heavy scrapes and dents in what will have been a reinforced vehicle made for the Royal family.
The Sun reported that while trapped the disorientated Duke exclaimed "My legs! Where should I put my legs!".
He also asked after the people in the other car. "He was obviously shaken, and then he went and asked if everyone else was all right," said Warne.
The Duke was seen speaking to uniformed police as a group of about five people comforted one another near to the second car. Ambulance crews were called to the scene.
Berneen Caney, a 25-year-old support worker who was nearby, said: "It appeared to be quite serious, there was a lot of glass over the road as well as debris. I saw one of the cars was quite badly damaged ... its windows were smashed. By the time I passed by, [it] had been tipped back up on its wheels."
Local driver Natalie Courtney Ely wrote on a Facebook page: "I drove past about 10 minutes after it happened, if that. I'm surprised he wasn't hurt. On that stretch of road the sunlight was causing major visibility issues for me so I'm sure it was for other drivers too - maybe they should consider that due to this the poor visibility was more of a cause for the collision rather than speed."
The royal car and one other vehicle were taken from the scene by recovery lorry. A Buckingham Palace source confirmed that the Duke holds a current driving licence; the law in the UK requires those over 70 to reapply every three years.
The scene near Sandringham Estate where Prince Philip was involved in a road accident.
The former naval officer did not accompany the Queen to a church service on Christmas Day last month though a royal source said he was in good health.
The Duke also did not attend the christening of Prince Louis - the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's third child - in July 2018.
The Queen and Prince Philip have been staying at Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk, since Christmas.
The Duke is no stranger to the driving seat and has been seen with very famous passengers in a Range Rover previously.
Philip showed former US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle the personal touch when he drove them and the Queen to Windsor Castle after the Marine One presidential helicopter landed close to the monarch's Berkshire home during their visit to the UK in April 2016.
Even in his 80s, the Duke continued to compete in demanding carriage driving competitions, and has previously pulled muscles in his back while driving his horse-drawn carriage.
In 2017, he joked how the rough and tumble of carriage driving left his "Balmoral dog cart" smashed up regularly.
In his first interview since he announced his retirement, the Duke told how he took up the sport of carriage driving when he gave up polo aged 50. He was instrumental in helping to establish the sport and took part well into his 80s, but gave up competitions some years ago.
Philip's hobbies include oil painting and bird watching in addition to carriage driving.
The Duke admitted ahead of his 90th birthday in 2011 that he wanted "less responsibility, less rushing about".
The Duke married the Queen in 1947 and has been by his wife's side throughout her long reign.
The Duke, who had successful hip replacement surgery in 2018, retired from public life in August 2017, after completing 22,219 solo engagements since 1952.
- Stuff with The Daily Telegraph and The Sydney Morning Herald