A female driver has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a crash. 

Emergency services were called to a single-vehicle collision on the A354 Salisbury Road near Coombe Bissett.

It was reported to Wiltshire Police shortly after 7.30 this morning (Monday, June 13). 

In an update, police said: "The road has now been reopened. The female driver of the vehicle was airlifted to Southampton Hospital with serious injuries."

Fire crews from Salisbury and Fordingbridge were also called to the collision involving a car and a tree.

Hydraulic cutting equipment was used to remove the car's roof. 

A spokesperson for Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were called to the A354 Coombe Bissett at 7.36am after a car was in collision with a tree.

"Two crews attended, from Salisbury and Fordingbridge, and firefighters used hydraulic cutting equipment to remove the car’s roof, allowing the female driver to be freed into the care of the air ambulance."

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) added: “We sent a rapid response vehicle, a double-crewed land ambulance and an air ambulance. We conveyed one patient to Southampton General Hospital by air ambulance."