EMERGENCY services were called to the A68 near Riding Mill after a car came off the road and crashed into
a ditch.

Police, firefighters and an ambulance, were called to the road between the Broomhaugh roundabout and the Styford roundabout on Monday after a Suzuki Jimny crashed at 9.30am.

The woman driver was helped from the vehicle and taken to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary for a check-up.