A CRASH on the A356 involving two vehicles has left a driver in hospital.

A section of the A356 was closed off for hours after two vehicles collided near Crewkerne in Somerset.

Drivers were advised to avoid the A356 after the incident with "heavy-traffic" built up near the road closure for most of the day.

Police were called out at around 10:30am today (November 4) to the incident in which they placed a road closure.

Traffic has been blocked off both ways after the Dorset Police enforced the road closure between Winyards Gap Inn and Corscombe turning. 

Speaking after today's incident, a spokesperson from the police said: "We received a report at 10.31am of a two vehicle collision on the A356 near Chedington.

"Officers have attended the scene, along with the ambulance service, and road closures have been put in place.

"One person has been taken to hospital but we do not have any condition update at this time."