AN 88-YEAR-OLD motorist has sustained serious injuries after colliding with another car by a bridge.
The woman, who suffered serious leg injuries, is being treated at Darlington Memorial Hospital, following the collision at 7.35am today (Friday, October 11), by the River Swale bridge on the A684, at Morton-on-Swale, near Northallerton.
It involved a grey Volkswagen Passat driven by the elderly woman travelling towards Leeming Bar and a red Ford Fiesta heading towards Morton-on-Swale.
The driver and passenger in the Fiesta, a man and woman in their 70s, were taken to the Friarage Hospital, in Northallerton, but later released.
The road was closed for four hours while casualties were treated and collision investigators examined the scene.
Anyone who saw the incident or the vehicles before the collision should call police on 101 or email martin.recchia@northyorkshire.pnn.police.uk
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