A man has been taken to hospital after a three-car crash near Thurso.

Emergency services were called to the A9 at the junction with the B874 Halkirk road just before 9am on Monday.

A man in his 50s has been airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness in a serious condition.

The drivers of the two other cars, a man and a woman, were not seriously injured.

The road was closed for much of the day, reopening just before 4pm.