TWO people were seriously injured in a head-on car crash at Mottisfont. Tuesday morning's smash happened on a sharp bend outside Lime Kiln Meadow Farm on the B3084 between Great Bentley Farm Cottages and Jerrem's Hill.

Paramedics placed the two badly injured men on spinal boards and ambulance crews took them to Southampton General Hospital. A Ford Zetec and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in the crash. The injured men - one in his 20s and the other believed to be in his 40s - come from the Stockbridge and Andover areas.

A hospital-based doctor and an emergency care practitioner were sent to the accident to aid ambulance paramedics. A South Central Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "Both patients were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries. One man suffered back injuries and the other sustained neck and arm injuries. Both were put on spinal boards and given neck collars before being taken to hospital."

Two Hampshire Fire and Rescue crews were also sent to the incident after reports the occupants of both cars were trapped. Both accident victims were free from the mangled wreckage by the time firefighters arrived. The road was completely blocked for nearly two hours.

There have been a number of crashes along this particular stretch of road during the last few years -some serious.

Jacqui Millns who lives about 500 hundred yards away from the crash scene said: "I was in the garden when I heard a fire engine whizzing down the hill and the sirens suddenly stopped down in the trees. I knew something had happened but didn't know what. I then heard what must have been an ambulance and then I saw a police car go down. There seems to be frequent accidents there. People tend to take the bends far too quickly. I don't know where there was any water on the road when the accident happened but water does lie there."