EMERGENCY services were called to a crash involving a car and a motorbike near a hospital.

Dorset Police received a report of a crash on Castle Lane East, Bournemouth, at 3.25pm on Tuesday, October 24.

The crash caused two lanes to be blocked at the traffic lights near Royal Bournemouth Hospital.

An ambulance from the South Western Ambulance Service attended.

Dorset Police confirmed that its log for the incident was closed at 4.43pm, and the road was cleared with no vehicle damage reported.

Traffic coped well after the incident, which was cleared before rush hour.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 15:24hrs on Tuesday 24 October to a road traffic incident on Castle Lane, Bournemouth. We sent a double-crewed land ambulance and conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Royal Bournemouth Hospital.”