A WOMAN was taken to hospital following a car crash in Redditch town centre this afternoon (Monday, March 20).

Emergency services were called to the scene near Grove Street at about 1.35pm. 

West Midlands Ambulance Service gave advice on back pain to a 55-year-old woman, who did not want to go to hospital, and she was discharged at the scene.

A further woman, aged 51, suffering back pain was given pain relief and take to the Alexandra Hospital in Woodrow Drive.

Firefighters cut the door off a car to release the 51-year-old.