A BUS driver has been airlifted to hospital after a coach crashed on the A1.

The coach collided with a Mercedes car on the southbound carriageway at the A69 turn-off, just before 3pm.

The coach passengers have been taken off the bus to transfer to another vehicle and the coach driver is being taken to hospital by air ambulance.

Aprroximately 35 people were on the coach.

The southbound carriageway is currently blocked. The northbound carriageway is open.