A PEDESTRIAN has been taken to hospital with serious injuries following a crash in Poole this morning. 

The crash in Rossmore Road involving a pedestrian and a van was reported to police shortly before 8am.

Police and the ambulance service attended. 

A Dorset Police spokesperson said: “We were called at 7.57am on Friday 11 November 2022 to a report of a collision involving a van and a pedestrian in Rossmore Road in Poole."

Giving an update, the spokesperson said the pedestrian had been taken to hospital for treatment to serious injuries.

A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) said: “We were called at 07.59hrs to an incident in Parkstone, Poole.

"We sent a double-crewed land ambulance, and conveyed one patient to Poole Hospital.”

Officers closed the road between Good Road and the Trinidad Boxing Club.

The road has been reopened.