THE driver of a car which collided with a bus in Darlington town centre was taken to hospital with head injuries yesterday.

The accident happened on Yarm Road at the junction with Hundens Lane at about 12.30pm.

The road was blocked for an hour after a Vauxhall Astra travelling towards the town centre turned into Hundens Lane and collided with the front of a single decker Stagecoach bus going out of town, on Yarm Road.

The bus was the 25A Red Hall service and had about 12 passengers on board at the time.

Richard Cranmer, divisional traffic manager at Stagecoach, said that three of the passengers were taken to hospital after the accident, but none of them were seriously injured.