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Awful day on Exeter's roads

Three people in hospital

Two serious crashes on roads around Exeter on Thursday have left three people in hospital.

Around 11am emergency services were called to Topsham Road at the junction with Barrack Road, just outside the city centre, where a three-vehicle incident involved a Volvo HGV, a Skoda Yeti car and a Neco Alex-One motorbike.

The 66-year-old biker was trapped and had to be freed by the fire service using hydraulic rescue equipment before being taken to hospital. He's been transferred to Derriford Hospital with extensive injuries including broken ribs and a collapsed lung.

Police are asking for witnesses to call them on 101, quoting log 278 of 22 April.

At 12.30pm emergency services were called to another incident about four miles away near the St George and Dragon public house on the A376 Exeter to Exmouth road at Clyst St George. A car and a light goods vehicle had collided. Hydraulic tools were need here to cut a woman free. Both she and a man involved in the incident were taken to hospital.

Both incidents led to major tailbacks across the south-east of the city, including through Woodbury and Exton, and across Woodbury Common.

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