A CYCLIST was taken to hospital following a crash at a roundabout in Westbourne on Thursday morning, December 8.

The single-vehicle crash involving a bicycle occurred at Alum Chine Roundabout in Alum Chine Road.

Police were called to the scene at 6.08am and closed the road. 

A man was taken to hospital with injuries not believed to be serious. 

A Dorset Police spokesperson said: “Report received at 6.08am of single vehicle collision involving a bicycle

“Location is the roundabout in Alum Chine Road.

“Officers in attendance with ambulance service."

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 05.58hrs to an incident in Bournemouth.

"We sent a double-crewed land ambulance and conveyed one patient to Poole Hospital.”

Officers left the scene shortly after 9.30am.