A MOTORCYCLIST needed hospital treatment after a collision with a car.

The 18-year-old youth, whose name has not yet been released by police, was driving along Accrington Road, between Whalley and Great Harwood, when the accident happened near Portfield Bar traffic lights about 5pm yesterday.

He was in collision with a Peugeot 206 driven by a 19-yaer-old man, which was reversing out of a driveway.

Paramedics attended and the biker was taken to Burnley General Hospital with a suspected broken arm.