A MAN has been taken to hospital after a three-vehicle crash on a hill. 

Multiple emergency services rushed to Christchurch Road through Pokesdown just before midday on Thursday, August 15. 

The crash, which involved a Volvo, Vauxhall Corsa and Transit van, blocked the road for around three hours while the emergency services dealt with it. 

One man was taken to Royal Bournemouth Hospital with minor injuries, but the fire service had to use hydraulic cutting equipment to help paramedics get to him. 

A spokesman for Dorset Police said: "At 11.42am on Thursday 15 August 2024, we received a report of a three-vehicle road traffic collision in Christchurch Road in Bournemouth. 

"Officers attended with the ambulance and fire services. 

"The road [was] closed between Waltham Road and Holdenhurst Avenue.” 

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 11.46am on Thursday, August 15 to a road traffic collision in Bournemouth. 

"We sent one double-crewed land ambulance, and an operations officer to the scene. We conveyed one patient by land ambulance to Royal Bournemouth Hospital”. 

Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service’s spokeswoman said crews from Springbourne and Christchurch attended to help paramedics and had left by 12.25pm.