A TEENAGER was taken to hospital after the car he was driving ended up in a ditch during the early hours of Sunday morning.

The emergency services were alerted at around 2.10am to the crash involving a Vauxhall Corsa on High Road, Shillington, opposite the junction with Marshalls Avenue.

The 19-year-old male driver was treated at the roadside by paramedics before he was taken to Lister Hospital in Stevenage with minor injuries.