Three people have been taken to hospital following two incidents in a road near Ipswich town centre.

Emergency services first called to Civic Drive at about 5.40pm on Monday following reports of a man in the road, near to the junction with St Matthew's Street having suffered a medical emergency. 

A section of the road was closed off while police and ambulance crews attended the scene. 

Then at about 6.05pm, police where then called to a second incident in Civic Drive - this time at the junction with Princes Street.

A car collided with two pedestrians and it was initially feared they had suffered potentially life-changing injuries.

They were taken to hospital by ambulance and it was later deemed the injuries were not life-changing and the road was reopened at 10.25pm.

A spokesman for Suffolk police said the two incidents are not being treated as connected, and the second incident was not as a consequence of the first.