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Zac Sherratt

Early morning crash sees car stuck in Wallsend shopfront with two taken to hospital

A major road in Wallsend was closed on Friday morning after a crash left a car lodged in a shop front.

The car and a van sustained serious damage after colliding on the crossroads of Station Road and High Street at around 7.15am - leaving the car stuck in the shutters of Greenways food store.

Traffic was halted for around three hours on Station Road from the crash site down to Buddle Street while emergency services attended the scene - taking two people to hospital.

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Police and emergency services at a crash outside Greenways store on Wallsend High street (Newcastle Chronicle)

A spokeswoman for North East Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 7.14am to a two-vehicle road traffic collision at the junction of Station Road and High Street, Wallsend.

“We dispatched two double crewed ambulances and a specialist paramedic. Two patients were taken to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.”

Northumbria Police said the two patients were taken to hospital “to be checked over as a precaution”. Police remained on the scene before the vehicles were removed a short while later.

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