POLICE are appealing for information on a collision on the A30 at Okehampton last Thursday, in which two elderly people were seriously injured.

Emergency services were called around 6.05pm after the collision between a large goods vehicle and a car on the westbound carriageway at Sourton.

The car’s occupants, an 84-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman from Launceston, were seriously injured and taken to Derriford Hospital where police said they remain in a serious but stable condition.

The HGV driver, 51, from Sheffield, was uninjured and was interviewed by police shortly after the collision.

A section of the A30 was closed for five hours.

Officers from the Serious Collision Investigation Unit are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information is asked to contact them via 101 or email [email protected] quoting log number 628 of November 12.