Emergency services responded to reports of an injured person in South Shields on Tuesday afternoon.
North East Ambulance Service received a call at 4.13pm on Tuesday that a person was injured outside a house on Stanhope Road in South Shields.
The ambulance service sent a HART crew, a rapid response paramedic and an emergency ambulance team.
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A man was then taken to Sunderland Royal for further treatment. An area on Egerton Road remains taped off by police.
A NEAS spokesperson said, "We were called at 16:13 this afternoon to reports of a person injured outside a private address on Stanhope Street in South Shields.
"We sent a HART crew, a rapid response paramedic and an emergency ambulance team and took one male patient to Sunderland Royal for further treatment."
We have contacted Northumbria Police for further comment.
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