Four people have been taken to hospital after a car and ambulance collided with a wall in Gateshead.
Emergency services were called to a crash on Park Road at around 10.35am on Saturday.
The ambulance was responding to a category 3 patient call on behalf of the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) at the time of the incident.
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Four people were transported to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital with minor injuries.
The A184 was closed at its junction with McDonald's while police, fire and ambulance crews were in attendance.
A NEAS spokesperson said: "We received a call at 10:35 this morning to reports of a road traffic collision on Park Road in Gateshead involving a third party ambulance and a car in which both hit a wall.
"The ambulance was responding to a category 3 patient at the time and there was no patient on board.
"We sent a clinical team leader, a duty officer, three hazardous area response teams and two emergency ambulance crews.
"We took four patients to Queen Elizabeth hospital in Gateshead with minor injuries."
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