TWO teenagers have been arrested after a crash that left three people injured.

A blue Nissan sports vehicle and a large blue Dodge pick-up truck, both travelling from Steyning, collided with a Skoda Octavia car travelling from Sompting.

The accident happened this afternoon, just before 1pm, at Bostal Road in Steyning, near the junction with Newnham Road.

Two men and a woman, in their 70s and from the Worthing area, were trapped in the Skoda, which is understood to have flipped on to its roof.

After being released by the fire service in a two-hour job, they were taken by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The woman, a passenger, was fully concious and went to A&E as a priority with a potential chest injury. One of the men, the driver, had potential pelvic injuries and a fractured leg. The third occupant was less badly injured.

Another Skoda Octavia went into the back of the first Skoda, meaning four vehicles were involved but nobody else was injured.

The road was closed for more than three hours.

Two men, one aged 19 from Storrington and one aged 18 from Worthing, have been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, and were in custody last night.

Sergeant Neil Walker of the Surrey and Sussex Road Policing Unit said: "Anyone who saw what happened, and in particular anyone who saw the sports car and the truck leaving Steyning, should email collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 quoting Serial 672 of 03/05."