POLICE are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a woman was hit by a car in Bacup last week.

The incident happened at around 6am on Thursday at the Glen Street junction with Lee Road, just off Newchurch Road and involved a grey Vauxhall Zafira and a 66-year-old woman.

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The woman was left with head injuries. She remains in hospital.

Road policing officer PC David Todhunter said: “We are trying to piece together exactly what caused this collision to happen and so we need anyone who may have seen anything to speak to us.”

If you know anything that could help, call 101 quoting incident reference 128 of March 23.

Alternatively Crimestoppers can be contacted anonymously on 0800 555111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org.