A PEDESTRIAN has been left seriously injured after being knocked down by a car.

Police and paramedics were called to Victoria Drive, Eastbourne, at 10.08am.

A 69-year-old woman was flown to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, by air ambulance having suffered a significant head injury after being knocked down.

She remains in a serious condition.

The driver of the blue Vauxhall Zafira, a 46-year-old woman, was uninjured.

Sergeant Dan Pitcher of the Sussex Police Roads Policing Unit said: "We are asking anyone who was in the area at the time and may have seen what happened to get in touch."

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident is asked to contact Sussex Police by email collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101 quoting Operation Tristar.