EMERGENCY services were called to a three vehicle road traffic collision on the A350 Blandford Road.

A call was made to Dorset Police at around 9.05am with reports of an incident near to Lytchett Matravers involving a hedge close to the Woodlands Nursery Garden Centre.

Blandford Road was closed up to the Roundhouse Roundabout and at Jubilee Cross south at the turning for Lytchett Matravers Dorset Fire and Rescue Service and Dorset Ambulance Service are on the scene, with one person with suspected spinal injuries having been taken to Poole Hospital.

Involved in the collision are a white Vauxhall Combo, registered to a company from Radstock, in Somerset, a white Vauxhall Movano, registered to a Wimborne company, and a silver Vauxhall Astra registered to a Poole man.

The other people involved in the collision have been described by a Dorset Police spokesperson as walking wounded.