A WOMAN has been cut free from a car after a crash on the A19 just outside York.

All three emergency services went to the scene of the crash in Skelton, close to the Mercure Fairfield Manor Hotel.

There were reports that a lorry had gone in to the back of an MPV.

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said: "We were called to the scene at about 4.42pm and we have crews from Acomb, Huntington and Malton attended a two vehicle road traffic collision involving a car and HGV.  Crews used hydraulic cutting gear to release one female from the car."