A MOTORIST has been seriously injured in a crash with a delivery lorry which then ploughed into a cottage.

A 72-year-old male VW driver sustained injuries in the crash with the lorry which collided with another car before smashing into a house in Bolney Road, Ansty. The lorry driver and motorist in the other car were taken to hospital, those living in the cottage were unhurt. The building has structural damage and has been bordered up.

The A272 was closed at the junction with Bishops Lane and Pickwell Lane for almost 12 hours after the Saturday afternoon crash.