Two men were taken to York District Hospital today after a three-vehicle crash on the A19 just north of Riccall.

A maroon Ford Fiesta, a red Vauxhall Cavalier and a 7.5 tonne Ford lorry were involved in the collision at about 10am.

Police said the drivers of the Fiesta and Cavalier were taken to hospital with whiplash injuries and shock, but the lorry driver was uninjured. All three men were said to be local.

The Cavalier and the lorry were travelling south towards Selby, and the Fiesta was travelling in the opposite direction.

A woman passenger was critically ill today in the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton after an accident on the A1 yesterday at the Leeming interchange.

The car in which she was a passengerwent off the road and into a field.

The driver of the car, a 74-year-old man from the North East, suffered bruises.

A family had a lucky escape when a car careered off the A64 into the side of their house, causing £30,000 damage.

Colin Ferguson, of Scarborough Road, Rillington, near Malton, a mobile care worker, was preparing to go to work at around 11pm last night when he heard a crash.

He said: "I knew something had come in to my property. I jumped up in absolute horror and ran to the bottom of the stairs, where my wife Linda handed me our two-year-old son John."

After evacuating his wife and three children from the house, Mr Ferguson found a blue Ford Orion embedded in the side of his house with the two occupants groaning inside.

One person was slightly injured and taken to Malton Hospital.

Updated: 16:02 Tuesday, February 27, 2001