A POLICE officer was injured in a two-vehicle crash that closed a busy Hampshire road.

He was responding to a what police describe as an “ongoing incident” when his patrol car was in collision with another vehicle on the A31 at Four Marks, near Alton.

The officer was taken to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital with minor injuries and was later discharged.

A police spokesman said: “We can confirm that a police vehicle responding to an ongoing incident was involved in a collision with a silver Honda Civic on the A31 at Four Marks shortly after 9:40pm.

“The driver of the Honda, a man from Bordon, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

“A police officer driving the other vehicle was treated for what were thought to be serious, but not life threatening, injuries at the time.

“He has since been released from Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital with minor injuries. No-one else was injured.

“The A31 was closed in both directions at Four Marks to allow a full investigation into the circumstances of the collision to take place.

“Other units were deployed to answer the incident that the police vehicle had been responding to at the time of the collision.”