A police officer has been taken to hospital with a suspected broken arm following a collision in Darlington while responding to an emergency call. The incident occurred at the traffic light junction with Portland Place on Woodland Road shortly before 6:30am on Tuesday.
Details of the Crash
Durham Constabulary confirmed that the officer driving the police car was responding to a call for assistance at Darlington Memorial Hospital when the crash happened. The officer sustained a suspected broken arm and was taken to hospital for treatment. The driver of the other vehicle involved, understood to be a silver car, sustained a bump to their head.
Emergency services, including the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS), were called to the scene. A section of the road between St Augustine's Way and Stanhope Road North was taped off for several hours, with motorists advised to seek alternative routes. The road has since reopened.
Police Statement
A spokesperson from Durham Constabulary said: "The officer was driving a police car on blue lights just before 6.30am when they were involved in a collision on Woodland Road. They were responding to a call for assistance at Darlington Memorial Hospital when the collision occurred. The officer was taken to hospital for treatment for a suspected broken arm. The driver of the other vehicle sustained a bump to their head. The road was closed in both directions while enquiries were carried out at the scene and the vehicles recovered, but has since reopened."
Ambulance Service Response
A NEAS spokesperson added: "We received a call at 6:33am this morning (14 July) to reports of a road traffic incident on Woodland Road in Darlington. We sent one emergency ambulance to the scene along with police colleagues who also attended. There were three patients at the scene but none required transport to hospital by ambulance."
Photos from the scene showed the aftermath of the crash, with the bumper of the police car left crumpled and several vehicles behind the cordon.
