TWO people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a car ploughed down the side of a hill near Belmont.

The Ford Escort was being driven along Scout Road when the driver Ben Mannion, aged 17, of Atherton, is believed to have lost control on a bend and the car left the carriageway.

Mr Mannion and the front seat passenger Sarah Hulme, aged 19, also of Atherton, suffered minor injuries and were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital.