A person has been taken to hospital after a car overturned on the A19 near Sunderland.
The three-vehicle crash saw traffic queuing on the northbound carriageway and diverted over the Hylton Grange Interchange while emergency services worked on the roadside below.
Ambulance crews were alerted just before 11am to the major crash, which saw several patients treated at the scene with one taken to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle for further care.
