DEVON and Cornwall Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a serious road traffic collision on the B3232 west of Alverdiscott near Hall Farm, Barnstaple.

A total of three people were taken to hospital, two with life-threatening injuries.

Police were called shortly before 11.40am on Wednesday, November 16 to reports of a two-vehicle road traffic collision.

Two cars were involved in the collision, a black Alfa Romeo Spider and a Blue Hyundai I20.

The occupants of the Hyundai - a female aged 69 and a male aged 77, both from the Torrington area - were airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth with injuries described as life-threatening.

The male driver of the Alpha Romeo, a 54-year-old from the Winkleigh area, was conveyed to North Devon District Hospital in Barnstaple by land ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.

A road closure was put in place as local officers and the Roads Policing Team completed a forensic examination of the scene.

Anyone with information, in particular dashcam, is asked to contact police via the website: www.devon-cornwall.police.uk/contact or by calling 101 quoting log number 272 of November 16.