TWO elderly women have been taken to hospital following a collision involving a car and a lamppost in Poole this morning.

Emergency services were called to the A35 Fernside Road just before 10.30am.

A spokesman from the South Western Ambulance Service said the occupants of the car, two elderly women, were suffering from shock and were taken to Poole Hospital to be checked over.

The road was partially blocked following the collision but has now been cleared.