ONE person was taken to hospital after a three-car crash in Cwmbran on Wednesday night.

Emergency services were called to Avondale Road at around 7pm.

Fire service crews from New Inn and Malpas used cutting equipment to free one person from their car.

A spokesman from the Welsh Ambulance Service said one person was taken to the Royal Gwent Hospital as a precaution.

He added they did not have critical or life threatening injuries.