Woman cut from car and taken to hospital following collision in Blyth

A woman is in hospital after being cut from a car following a collision in Northumberland.

Emergency services were called to William Street in Blyth on Tuesday morning following a two-vehicle crash.

Police , paramedics, the fire service and the air ambulance attended the scene and found that a person was trapped in a car.

Firefighters cut the woman from the vehicle and handed her over to paramedics from the North East Ambulance Service.

Emergency services at the scene of a collision on William Street in Blyth (Stephen Wood)

A spokesman for NEAS said: "We sent an ambulance, two Hazardous Area Response Teams and the air ambulance was deployed.

"One female patient was taken to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington by road ambulance being assisted by an air ambulance doctor."

A spokeswoman for Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service added: "Two pumps attended from West Hartford and one from Pegswood.

"There was one person medically trapped which we extricated and handed over to the paramedics."