Pedestrian seriously injured in collision

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision in Sidmouth which left a 65-year-old pedestrian with life-threatening injuries.

Emergency services were called to Church Street in Sidford at 6pm yesterday (16 April) after a Vauxhall Corsa car-derived van was in collision with the male pedestrian.

The Sidmouth man sustained serious injuries and was flown by air ambulance to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, where he remains in a stable condition.

The driver, a 41-year-old man from Seaton, was uninjured.

Part of Church Street was closed for six hours while officers from the Force’s Serious Collisions Investigation Unit carried out a forensic examination of the scene.

Officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident to contact them on 101, quoting log number 579 of 16/04/15.