FOUR people have been taken to hospital following a crash in Flintshire earlier today (September 17). 

Emergency services were called to the scene of a road traffic collision involving a minibus in Flint shortly before 12.20pm. 

The incident occurred near the Coach and Horses pub on Northop Road, which was closed following the RTC. 

North Wales Fire and Rescue service were in attendance from Deeside, with firefighters extracting one person from the vehicle. 

The Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed that four patients were taken to hospital following the collision, with one woman being airlifted to Stoke Hospital with "serious injuries". 

A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called shortly after midday today to a road traffic collision on Flint Mountain.

"We sent an operations manager, three emergency ambulances, two Cymru High Acuity Response Unit paramedics and an advanced paramedic practitioner to the scene.

"Advanced critical care support was delivered by the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service in a Wales Air Ambulance charity helicopter. Four patients were taken to hospital.”

A spokesperson for North Wales Police added: "Shortly before 12.20pm today (Tuesday, September 17th) we were called to a single-vehicle collision involving a minibus in Flint.

"Emergency services attended the scene near the Coach and Horses on Northop Road, Flint Mountain, where a woman was airlifted to Stoke Hospital with serious injuries.

"The road remains closed whilst the vehicle recovery takes place."