Two people injured, transported to hospital, after a two-car crash on Route 5 near Holyoke.

Firefighters used a metal-cutting tool to remove the roof of a car and free the driver after a collision on Route 5 north Tuesday sent two people to the hospital and closed the busy road to traffic for a while, officials said.

"They had to cut the roof off to get to the guy. There was a bunch of spare parts in the street: a wheel, an axle," said a Fire Department spokesman.

The driver of the car, a Volvo sedan, and the driver of the other vehicle, a Ford box truck with the sign Stan Czaplicki Drywall on the sides, both were taken to the hospital with injuries that weren't life-threatening. They were the only two passengers in the vehicles, he said.

The accident occurred about a mile north of the Dinosaur Footprints rest stop. Firefighters received the alarm at 2:39 p.m., he said.

Firefighters operated a Jaws of Life extrication device to pry away the roof of the Volvo and remove the driver, he said.

It appeared both drivers were wearing seat belts because neither was ejected after the crash, he said.

Firefighters worked on the Volvo, which was on one side of the road, while the truck was on the other side of Route 5 pressed against the guardrail with part of its front smashed in.

Police said the officer compiling the accident report was still working on it and the names of the drivers were unavailable.

The scene included fire trucks, AMR ambulances and police cruisers with tires, glass and other car parts strewn on the road between the two vehicles.