A MAN and a woman were taken to Salisbury District Hospital yesterday after a crash on the A338 near Downton

Police were called to the two-vehicle road collision just after 4pm. 

It involved a Vauxhall Tigra and a Vauxhall Combo van.

A 32-year-old man was cut free from one of the vehicles by firefighters. And a 60-year-old woman was released by ambulance crews. Both were taken to hospital. 

The crash happened on the A338 between Downton and Breamore, one mile south of Downton.