Ambulance driver hurt in crash

AN AMBULANCE taking an injured motorcyclist to a Northumberland hospital was involved in a three-vehicle smash last night.

The crash happened shortly before 8.30pm on the A6079 road at Wall, near Hexham, leaving the driver of the ambulance with lower back and leg pain.

A spokesman for the ambulance service said the vehicle did not have its blue flashing lights on because the injury to the motorcyclist was not life-threatening. Both the ambulance driver and the motorcyclist were transferred to another ambulance and taken to Hexham General Hospital.