Person airlifted to hospital after three-car crash

1 August 2025

News image — The A146 between Worlingham and Carlton Colville was closed following a three-vehicle crash

Google A general view of the A146. Vehicles travel in front of the camera on the left hand side of the road. There is a REDUCE SPEED NOW sign on the left verge. — The A146 between Worlingham and Carlton Colville was closed following a three-vehicle crash

A person has been airlifted to hospital after a crash involving three vehicles blocked a busy road.

Police and paramedics were called to the A146 in Barnby near Lowestoft, Suffolk, at 08:00 BST.

Three vehicles were involved leading to the closure of Beccles Road, between the junction with the A145 Copland Way in Barnby and the A1145 roundabout at Carlton Colville.

The East of England Ambulance Service said it took one patient by air ambulance to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge while another was taken by road to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk.

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