One person has died and 19 were taken to hospital after a minibus overturned following a collision with a car in Cambridgeshire.

Emergency services were called to a junction on the B1040 Somersham Road, near the villages of Woodhurst and Bluntisham, at about 4.50pm on Thursday.

The East of England ambulance service said it sent 10 ambulances and two air ambulances to the scene. Twenty firefighters also attended. The emergency services were supported by a hazard response team, the BBC reported.

An ambulance service spokesman said: “Sadly, despite our best efforts one person died at the scene.”

Police said several people were seriously injured. Six people were taken to Hinchingbrooke hospital near Huntingdon and 13 were taken to Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge.

A petition calling for urgent improvements to the junction had been signed by more than 1,000 people by Friday morning, Peterborough Today reported.

The petition’s creator, Rachel Fabb, wrote that she had seen “horrendous accidents” at the crossroads over the past 18 years and called for better signage and either traffic lights or a roundabout.