Pensioner taken to hospital after one-vehicle crash on A189 in Northumberland
A pensioner has been taken to hospital after a one-vehicle crash in Northumberland[1]. Emergency services were called to the A189, near the Bedlington[2] slip road, at around 9.25am on Tuesday to reports of a collision. Paramedics attended and took a man, aged 79, to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital[3] with what is believed to be non life-threatening injuries.
A Northumbria Police[4] spokesperson said: "Shortly before 9.25am today (Tuesday) police received a report of a one-vehicle collision on the A189 northbound just near the slip road to Bedlington.
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Officers and emergency services attended the scene and the 79-year-old male occupant of the car was taken to hospital and the vehicle recovered." A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called to reports of a road traffic collision at the junction of the A1147 and B1331 in Bedlington shortly before 9.30am this morning. "We dispatched one ambulance crew and one crew from our Hazardous Area Response Team, and transported one patient to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital for further treatment."
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- ^ Bedlington (www.chroniclelive.co.uk)
- ^ Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (www.chroniclelive.co.uk)
- ^ Northumbria Police (www.chroniclelive.co.uk)
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