THREE adults have been taken to hospital after a car crashed off the road.

The accident, outside East Edmondsley Farm, on the road from Edmondsley to Holmside, near Chester-le-Street, County Durham, happened at 10.50pm.

A spokesman for Durham Fire Service said three adults were rescued from the car, and taken to the University Hospital of North Durham suffering from multiple injuries.

Two fire crews from Durham attended the incident.