Two people taken to hospital after two-vehicle collision on A197 between Ashington and Morpeth

Emergency services were called to the scene and a section of the road, which runs between Ashington and Morpeth, was closed and later re-opened.

Northumbria Police said it was informed of the two-vehicle collision on the A197 near Pegswood “shortly after 7.45am today (Monday)”.

And now a spokesman for the North East Ambulance Service has stated: “We received a call at 7.47am to attend a road traffic collision involving two cars on the A197 near Morpeth.

“We dispatched two paramedic crews and a clinical team leader, who treated two patients – one from each car – for head and body injuries before taking them both to the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.”