A MOTORIST was airlifted to hospital today after she was involved in a crash which blocked the A12 in both directions.The woman's black Volkswagen Golf car was in collision with a white Renault box van just before 9.30am at Thorington, near the A12 turn-off to Saxmundham.

A MOTORIST was airlifted to hospital today after she was involved in a crash which blocked the A12 in both directions.

The woman's black Volkswagen Golf car was in collision with a white Renault box van just before 9.30am at Thorington, near the A12 turn-off to Saxmundham.

Police, fire and ambulance crews were called to the scene.

A spokeswoman for the East of England Ambulance Service said the woman and her male passenger in the car reported suffering neck pains.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance was called and the woman was flown to the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston for treatment.

The man was taken by ambulance to the same hospital.