A person has been taken to hospital after a crash involving a motorcycle and car tonight.

Emergency services were alerted to the collision on Yarm Back Lane, Stockton, at about 6pm on Monday. 

Fire service, police, ambulance crew and a medical car from the Great North Air Ambulance were in attendance. 

Paramedics treated a patient at the scene before they were taken to hospital.

A spokesperson for the North East Ambulance Service said: "We were called to a road traffic collision on Yarm Back Lane, Stockton shortly after 6pm this evening.

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"We dispatched a specialist paramedic, a double crewed ambulance and were supported by the medical car from Great North Air Ambulance.

"One patient was taken to James Cook Hospital."

We have contacted Cleveland Police for more information.