POLICE closed a main road between York and Selby this morning after a lorry jackknifed and landed on top of a car.
The accident happened just after 6am today on the A19 at Deighton, near the White Swan pub, with fire and ambulance crews also being called to the scene.
One person is understood to have suffered minor injuries in the collision, but nobody was seriously injured. North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, who called for heavy lifting gear to be brought in from Tadcaster to take the damaged articulated lorry off the road, said nobody was trapped in either of the vehicles when they arrived.
North Yorkshire Police said the A19 was reopened to traffic at around 8am today. The cause of the crash is not yet known.
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