AN elderly woman has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after the car she was a passenger in crashed into a wall.
The crash involved a black Vauxhall Corsa and happened at about 3.10pm on St Matthew's Close, in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.
The driver of the car, a man believed to be in his 80s, in thought to have had a blackout while driving.
He suffered minor injuries, but his wife was trapped in the car for just under an hour until she was cut free by firefighters.
She was airlifted to Harrogate District Hospital with serious injuries to her head, chest and hand, while her husband was taken to the Friarage Hospital, in Northallerton, by land ambulance.
St Matthew's Close, a residential street off Harmby Road, the main road into Leyburn from Bedale and Northallerton, was closed for several hours while traffic collision officers investigated the scene.
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