Baby and child hospitalised after car collides with pedestrians near Christmas market

Two young children have been injured after a driver collided with pedestrians near a Christmas market in south Gloucestershire.

The emergency services attended after reports of a low-speed crash with pedestrians on the Chipping Sodbury High Street at midday today.

The driver – thought to be a man in his 80s – collided with a group of pedestrians when trying to manoeuvre out of a parking space in the market town around 13 miles northeast of Bristol.

Ambulance crews were also alerted and they assessed five adults and two children along with the driver at the scene.

A baby and a child have gone to hospital following the incident, Avon and Somerset Police said.

The force said: ‘We’d like to reassure people that despite the large emergency response no one is currently described as having either life-threatening or life-changing injuries.

‘Two young children, including a baby, have gone to hospital.’

The organisers of the Christmas Sunday fair said the event will remain open after advice from the police.

‘We would ask anyone attending today to please not take photos of the incident, and not speculate on social media as we work the emergency services to help those people who need assistance,’ they said in a statement.

Anyone with information or footage of the incident is asked to contact the force.

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