TRAFFIC is queuing in West Parley due to a crash involving three cars.

Dorset Police were contacted just before 7.20am by South Western Ambulance Service with a report of the incident near The Curlew Pub in Christchurch Road.

The vehicles involved are a blue Hyundai Matrix registered to a woman from Lymington, a red and silver Mitsubishi registered to a man from Fordingbridge and a grey Ford Focus registered to a man from Bournemouth.

A police spokesperson described the people who were in the cars as ‘walking wounded.’

They added that there is an amount of debris on the road which the local authorities have been called to clear and traffic is moving very slowly in the area as a result of the incident.