AN elderly woman has been taken to hospital after being in collision with a car in Bournemouth.

The emergency services were called to Brassey Road, near the Embassy Youth Club, at 12.25pm.

Dorset Police spokesman said that the incident involved a collision between a pedestrian and a car.

The pedestrian is understood to be an elderly lady.

The road has been closed at its junction with Wimborne Road and Muscliffe Road.

An ambulance is on the scene.

A spokesman for South Western Ambulance Service said that there was one casualty, the pedestrian, and they had suffered head and hip injuries, the seriousness of which is not yet known.