A TEENAGER has been taken to hospital following a crash in a County Durham village.

A car and a motorcycle collided in Ushaw Moor, near Durham, at around 5.30pm on Wednesday.

A 14-year-old, who was the pillion passenger on the motorcycle, was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries to his pelvis and arm.

The rider was a man in his 40s.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) attended the scene but the boy was taken to hospital by ambulance.