A man has been transferred to a hospital in the UK following a crash on the Mountain Road.

Police are appealing for witnesses following the two-vehicle collision that took place at the 27th Milestone at about 1pm on Sunday.

It involved a black Honda motorbike and a Ford Transit tipper van.

Around six miles of the road from Barrule Park to the Bungalow was closed for a number of hours while an accident investigation got under way.

A spokesman for the Roads Policing Unit said the collision ‘resulted in a male being transported to the UK for further treatment’.

They added: ‘We would like to appeal to anyone who may have witnessed this collision, who have not yet spoken to the police, to contact police headquarters on 631212 quoting reference 97/4690/24.

‘Police would be interested specifically in speaking with the driver of a white Transit-style van/tipper truck and a motorcyclist who may have been travelling in a line of slow moving traffic at the time (not involved in the collision), in the specific area mentioned.’