A DRIVER has been taken to hospital after a car crashed at an industrial estate this morning.

Emergency services were called to Eastside Industrial Estate on Jackson Street shortly after 10am this morning.

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Police, the fire and rescue service and ambulance attended the scene after a Dacia Sandero was involved in a collision.

A spokesperson from the fire service said: "There was a traffic collision, a car went into a skip.

"We were alerted at 10.02am and on scene at 10.05am and we had two fire engines there.

"We removed a passenger door on a vehicle to assist ambulance in removing the driver who has been taken to hospital for further assistance."

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A police spokesman added: "A man was driving the vehicle and suffered a medical episode and was in collision with a skip.

"He has been taken to hospital where he is stable."

Police were asked to clear the road so that the air ambulance could land.

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