A MOTORIST has been taken to hospital with life-changing injuries today after a crash in Newmarket.

The two-car accident happened in Rowley Drive at around 9.20am.

A Suffolk police spokesman said the man, who was driving one of the cars, was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.

The drivers of the vehicles were 21 and 40 years old. There was also a passenger travelling in one of the cars.

He said the Serious Collision Investigation Team had been at the scene gathering evidence.

A spokesman for the ambulance service said one of the casualties suffered neck injuries while the second person was conscious and breathing and suffering from shock.

The reopened at around 2.15pm.