FRIDAY the 13th meant bad news for drivers involved in three crashes in the Devizes area within three hours of each other.

Emergency services were called to the first collision at the top of Dunkirk Hill at around 11am, when an Escort with two elderly occupants from Chippenham and a white Transit van from the Devizes area collided.

The two older people were treated at the scene for neck and back injuries, which were not thought to be serious.

Then shortly before 2pm a lorry and a car collided at the junction of the A360 and the unclassified road at Potterne Wick.

The car driver was taken to hospital but again the injuries were not thought to be serious.

At almost the same time, on the A361 at the foot of Caen Hill, the driver of a white Citroen panel van belonging to a care services group lost control of the vehicle which ended up on its side.

The driver suffered minor leg injuries.