Two people have been taken to hospital after a pair of crashes in Jarrow.
One vehicle was left with serious damage after colliding with street furniture on the Hill Street junction with Albert Road at around 1.30pm, while a few minutes later two cars collided on the same road just a few hundred metres east of the first incident.
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) has now confirmed two people are in South Tynesid e Hospital following the double drama.
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“One of our emergency ambulances came across a road traffic collision on the A185 Park Road, Jarrow at around 1.30 this afternoon,” an NEAS spokeswoman said.
“A second road traffic collision also occurred in the same area a short time later and a second double crewed ambulance was dispatched to the scene. Two patients have been taken to South Tyneside Hospital.”
Emergency services were quick to arrive on the scene of both incidents, with at least three police cars and an ambulance blocking the crossroads and an officer guiding traffic.
A cause for the single-vehicle crash has not yet been determined, but police said the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: “Shortly after 1.25pm today (Monday) police received a report of a one-vehicle collision on Albert Road near to the junction with Hill Street in Jarrow. It was reported that a car had been travelling southbound when – for reasons to be established – it collided with street furniture.
“A short time after, at around 1.30pm, police received a report from the ambulance service of a second collision involving two cars also on Albert Road. Emergency services are currently at the scene where thankfully nobody is believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries.”
Albert Road remained closed while debris was removed but has now reopened to traffic.
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