Elderly woman seriously injured after being hit by car in Dawlish

Shortly before midday on Tuesday 9 July, an elderly woman pedestrian who was standing on a pavement was struck by a car that was being driven by an elderly man.

The incident took place on Gatehouse Close in Dawlish.

Police report that the car, a silver Skoda Fabia, was manoeuvring in the street and for an unknown reason left the road, striking the woman pedestrian before careering through a nearby garden, coming to rest against a nearby property.

The woman, thought to be in her mid-seventies, sustained serious head injuries and the male driver, a man in his mid-eighties, suffered minor facial injuries as a result of an airbag going off.

Substantial damage was caused to the car and a nearby bungalow.

Following treatment at the Royal Devon and Exeter hospital the woman was taken to Derriford hospital in Plymouth, where she remains in a critical condition.

The woman’s family have been made aware.

The Newton Abbot serious collisions investigation unit will now carry out a full investigation.  If anyone has any information about this incident they are asked to call police on 101 and quote log 396 of 9 July 2013.