A MAN and a woman were treated by ambulance crews after a crash on the A35 in Puddletown.

Police were called at 11.14am to reports of a two vehicle collision on the A35 westbound. 

A Dorset Police spokesman said that a woman has been taken to Dorset County Hospital "as a precaution".

Ambulance crews also treated a man with back injuries.

A dog travelling as a passenger with the woman was uninjured.

The road was closed at the Troy Town junction, but has now been reopened.

Police left the scene at 12.43pm.

The police spokesman added: "The vehicles involved were a silver Mazda registered to a Blandford woman and a grey Peugeot 308 registered to a Blandford man.

"One of the vehicles had gone into the central reservation."