A MOTORCYCLIST has been taken to hospital following a collision between his machine and a lorry near Royal Wootton Bassett.

Police closed the B4696 at Lydiard Plain because of the crash.It was reopened by 3.15pm.

South Western Ambulance Service were called at 1.40pm and the rider, a man from the Devizes area, was treated by paramedics before being taken to the major trauma centre at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.

The lorry driver was not injured.