A PERSON was taken to hospital after a crash involving a motorbike in Cwmbran.
Emergency services were called to the Pontrhydyrun area of Cwmbran at around 2.30pm yesterday, where a patient was treated at the scene before being transferred to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport.
The junction into Avondale Road near the IMO car wash was closed while emergency services dealt with the incident.
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An air ambulance was also called out, but in the end the patient was transferred to hospital via an ambulance.
The air ambulance at the scene in Cwmbran. Picture: Kimberly Badham.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesman said: "We sent a rapid response car, an emergency ambulance, the Wales Air Ambulance, and our emergency medical retrieval and transfer service.
"One patient was treated on scene and taken by road to the Royal Gwent Hospital for further treatment."
A spokesman for Wales Air Ambulance said: "I can confirm that Wales Air Ambulance attended an incident in the Cwmbran area yesterday (Wednesday, September 16).
"Our Dafen-based helicopter crew were mobile at 2.48pm and arrived on scene at 3.14pm.
"Following treatment from our on-board consultant and critical care practitioner, we left the scene at 4.03pm and the patient was conveyed to hospital in a road ambulance."
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