An elderly ambulance passenger is in hospital after a car crashed into an ambulance on the A19.
Just before 9pm on Friday April 14, a two-car collision on the A19 northbound near Houghton-le-Spring was reported, around half a mile north of the B1404 Seaton Lane junction. For reasons yet to be established, a red Seat hit a North East Ambulance Service vehicle.
The passenger, a woman in her 80s, remains in hospital with serious injuries. Police are asking anybody who believes they witnessed the collision, or who were in the area, to get in touch.
