A MAN has been taken to hospital in Newcastle by air ambulance after suffering a serious leg injury.

Police were called at about 3.45pm yesterday, July 20 to the A591, close to Ravenstone Hotel Bassenthwaite to a crash between a car and a motorbike.

A pillion passenger of the motorbike suffered a serious lower leg injury.

Air ambulance attended the scene and took the person to hospital.

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