Eight people were taken to hospital after a car collided into a care home, an ambulance service said. It happened at Highcliffe Care Home in Witherwack, Sunderland, at around 9.40pm on Wednesday. North East Ambulance Service, Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service and Northumbria Police attended the scene, where a hole was left in one of the walls of the care home. A North East Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We received a call at 9.41pm on Wednesday 9 July to reports to a vehicle colliding into a premises in the Whitechurch Road area of Sunderland. “We dispatched three emergency ambulance crews, a specialist paramedic, a duty officer, a clinical team leader, three crews from our Hazardous Area Response Team (Hart), our tactical advisor, our tactical commander, and two crews from our patient transport service (PTS) to the scene. “We assisted with the evacuation of residents at the property and eight patients were conveyed to hospital.”
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