Woman taken to hospital after being hit by car on busy Wigan road

At around 1.45pm police were called to reports of a collision between a car and a pedestrian outside St Anne's Church on Beech Hill Avenue.

Paramedics were called to the scene and a woman was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

Both Beech Hill Avenue and Netherby Road were closed in both directions but have since been reopened.