AN 81-YEAR-OLD woman was taken to hospital by ambulance following a car crash, just outside East Lothian yesterday. 

Police Scotland were alerted to a two-car crash at about 5.25pm at a junction on the A6093 at Fordel Dean Bridge in Midlothian. 

Following the incident, the A68 and B6367 roads leading to the county were closed for several hours. 

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Emergency services attended the scene, with the woman taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Police Scotland reopened the closed road at 9.20pm on Thursday evening; enquiries are still ongoing. 

A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We were called around 5.25pm on Thursday, November 7, to a report of a two-car crash at a junction on the A6093 at Fordel Dean Bridge in Midlothian.

“Emergency services attended and an 81-year-old woman, a passenger in one of the cars, was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

“The road was closed and reopened around 9.20pm.

“Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances.”