A driver was cut free from the wreckage of a car after a collision with another vehicle.

Upon arrival emergency services were faced with an accident scene ’spanning over 100 metres’.

The incident happened on the Old Castletown Road near Port Soderick and these photographs of the scene were released by the fire service.

Station officer David Cowley said that at about 6pm yesterday (Saturday) a rescue vehicle and major pumping appliance from Douglas together with the duty officer were dispatched by the Emergency Services Joint Control Room to reports of a two vehicle road traffic collision on the Old Castletown Road.

One person was reported to be trapped because of the wreckage.

He said that upon arrival crews were ’faced with a scene spanning over 100 metres in which two cars had suffered extensive damage’.

After liaising with the paramedics on scene crews used cutting and spreading equipment to free the driver from the wreckage and assist with their transfer to the awaiting ambulance.

The driver of the second vehicle did not require ambulance transfer to hospital.

Crews left the scene about 40 minutes later.No details have been released about the condition of the driver who was taken to hospital.