A PENSIONER was taken to hospital after his car collided with a tree in Lowestoft.

A PENSIONER was taken to hospital after his car collided with a tree in Lowestoft.

The 72-year-old man was taken to the James Paget Hospital for checks following the crash outside the fire station in High Beech at 9.50am today.

Earlier a teenager was treated at the scene of a crash in Sproughton. The 19-year-old girl suffered only minor injuries and did not need hospital treatment when the motorbike she was riding was in collision with a car near the Holiday Inn Express, in Old Hadleigh Road, at around 8.30am.