Pedestrian hit by car in Fareham crash with busy road blocked both ways

Hampshire police said the incident happened in Highlands Road in Fareham at 8.43am.

There were delays after the incident and the road is blocked, a traffic monitoring Twitter account said.

Romanse tweeted: ‘Both directions blocked on Highlands Road due to an incident near Gudge Heath Lane, delays on Gudge Heath Lane building.’

Paramedics said the incident happened in nearby Blackbrook Road.

A police spokeswoman said: ‘We were called at 8.43am to reports of a collision on Highlands Road involving a car and a pedestrian.

‘The pedestrian suffered a minor injury and has been taken to hospital.’

A South Central Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: ‘We were called this morning at 8.33am to Blackbrook Road to a road traffic collision involving a pedestrian and a car.

‘We had an ambulance crew on scene assessing one patient for non life threatening injuries. Following treatment at the scene by our crews the patient was taken to Queen Alexandra Hospital.’