Woman badly hurt in collision with a car in Coventry

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Emergency services were called to Sky Blue Way just before 9am today



A young woman has been seriously injured in a collision with a car in Coventry this morning.

Paramedics and police were called to the outbound side of Sky Blue Way, near the junction with Far Gosford Street, just before 9am.

A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said a woman in her 20s had been hit by a car and had suffered “a serious leg injury and a suspected neck injury.”

The woman was taken to Coventry’s University Hospital.

It is unclear at this stage if the woman was on a pedestrian crossing at the time of the collision.

A West Midlands Police spokesman said: "Police were called to Sky Blue Way in Coventry at around 9am this morning to a report of a car hitting a pedestrian.

"A woman has been taken to hospital with serious leg injuries."