EMERGENCY services responded to a crash involving a car and a parked van in Bournemouth.

Ambulance and police were called at 7.44am on Thursday, October 1, to reports of the collision at the junction of Northbourne Avenue and Leybourne Avenue.

It was reported that the road was blocked after the car crashed with the stationary vehicle.

A spokeswoman for Dorset Police said the occupants of the car were taken to hospital as a precaution and the incident was cleared at 9.14am.