TWO accidents happened within ten minutes of each other on Ipswich's roads today.

TWO accidents within ten minutes of each left two women needing hospital treatment in Ipswich today.

The first involved just one vehicle on Birkfield Drive at 3.13pm and as a result one woman was taken to hospital.

Then at 3.23pm on Hawthorn Drive, near the junction with Birkfield Drive, a car and a pedestrian were involved in a collision which left another woman, believed to be in her seventies, needing hospital treatment for head and leg injuries.