One person has been taken to hospital after a car collided with a lamppost on the A1 Western Bypass overnight.
The individual is not thought to have suffered serious injuries. The A1 was closed between Kenton Bar and Gosforth for around an hour and a half - with the police and ambulance service alerted to an incident at around 3.20am.
Northumbria Police said the incident had taken place on the northbound carriageway and involved damage to street furniture in the Gosforth Park area which "blocked the carriageway". North East Ambulance Service were also on the scene.
