Pensioners injured in crash with lorry

Police are appealing for information to a collision on the A30 at Okehampton yesterday [12 November] in which two elderly people were seriously injured.

Emergency services were called around 6.05pm after the collision between and a DAF large goods vehicle and a Volvo S80 on the westbound carriageway at Sourton.

The occupants of the Volvo, an 84-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman from Launceston, were seriously injured and were taken to Derriford Hospital where they remain in a serious but stable condition.

The HGV driver, a 51-year-old driver from Sheffield, was uninjured and was interviewed by police shortly after the collision.

A section of the A30 was closed for five hours while a specialist forensic investigation of the scene was undertaken by police.

Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses to this incident and anyone with information is asked to contact them via 101 or email 101@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk quoting log number 628 of 12/11/15.