One person has been taken to hospital following a crash on a busy A road this evening (December 22).

Motorists on the A19 southbound west of Thimbleby, North Yorkshire, faced long delays shortly after 7pm this evening after a crash.

Emergency services responded to the scene where one lane was initially closed off and a person was taken to hospital.

A spokesperson for the North Yorkshire Ambulance Service said: "We responded to a multiple-vehicle road traffic collision on the A19 near Thimbleby.

"One patient was conveyed to The James Cook Hospital."


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