A MOTORCYLIST is fighting for her life after a head-on crash.

Emergency services were called to the B2112 at Wivelsfield at 11.05am on Saturday.

A woman on a Yamaha bike hit a Nissan Qashqai travelling south, around 500 metres north of the junction with Janes Lane.

The rider, a 36-year-old woman, from Edenbridge, Kent, was seriously injured and taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. She is in a critical condition.

The Nissan driver, a 48-year-old St Leonards woman, sustained minor injuries. Witnesses should call 101, quoting Operation Strauss.