DRIVER HOSPITALISED AFTER CRASH ON A30 NEAR HONITON - 🚨

Report by Stephen Collier for Pulman's Weekly News

A driver has been taken to hospital following a collision between a van and a lorry on the A30 near Honiton.

The crash occurred at around 9.00pm on Thursday night, resulting in the road being closed in both directions between the A375 at Honiton and the B3177 at Fenny Bridges. Emergency services, including Devon and Cornwall Police and the South Western Ambulance Service, attended the scene.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said, “We were called at 21.10hrs on Thursday, March 20, to a road traffic collision. We sent two double-crewed land ambulances and an operations officer to the scene. We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.”

The driver’s injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

A police spokesperson added, “Police were called at 9.00pm on March 20 to the A30 at Daisy Mount Cross, following a collision involving an HGV and a van. The driver of the van was taken to hospital with injuries which are not being treated as life-threatening or changing. The road was closed while an initial investigation took place and the scene was cleared. It was reopened at 2.00am.”

The cause of the crash has yet to be confirmed.