Motorcyclist taken to hospital after crash in Yeovil

Police said they were called this morning at around 8.45am after a crash between a tractor and a motorcycle on Mudford Road. A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said "the motorcyclist was taken to Southmead Hospital for treatment by the air ambulance with life-changing, but not life-threatening, injuries". The spokesperson also said: "We were called shortly after 8.45am this morning (20 December) to a report of a serious collision between a tractor and a motorcycle on Mudford Road in Yeovil.

"Officers attended, alongside the ambulance service.

"The motorcyclist was taken to Southmead Hospital for treatment by the air ambulance with life-changing, but not life-threatening, injuries.

"The road has been closed between the junctions of Tower Road and Lyde Road."