Young girl among three seriously injured after crash outside school

Three people - including a 12-year-old girl - are in potentially life-threatening conditions after a pile-up outside a school.

Emergency services were called to a four-vehicle collision outside Port Regis School, near Shaftesbury in Dorset, at 8.35am on Wednesday.

Police said the girl, a 40-year-old woman and a man had been taken to Southampton General Hospital in potentially life-threatening conditions.

A second 12-year-old girl also suffered serious injuries, while one person sustained minor injuries.

The road where the collision happened has been closed to allow emergency services to deal with the incident.

Witnesses or anyone with information to the collision should contact police on 101 quoting incident number 13:72.