A FOURTEEN-month-old boy was airlifted to hospital after a crash in Cliviger.

The boy was in a black Volkswagen Polo being driven by his mother when it collided with a Renault Master van in Greencliffe Lane, Cliviger, at 2.30pm today.

An air ambulance was used to take the child to hospital, but this wa mainly precautionary because of his age, and he suffered only very minor injuries.