A TEENAGER had been airlifted to hospital after crashing his motorbike into a wall.

Officers were called at around 1.40pm after a 17-year-old came off his black Lexmoto motorbike after hitting a kerb and a wall in Burnley Road East, Water.

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A police spokesman said: "The teenager suffered head injuries but it is unclear whether they are serious or life threatening.

"Both sides of the road were blocked off."

A North West Ambulance Service spokesman said an air ambulance took the teenager to Royal Preston Hospital for treatment.