A WOMAN was left with multiple fractures after being hit by a car last night.

The accident happened in Brittany Road, Hove, at about 10.40pm last night.

The pedestrian, a 39-year-old local woman, was serious injured and rushed by ambulance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, where she has been detained for treatment.

The car was a red Mini One, driven by a 61-year-old woman from Shoreham, who was unhurt.

A Twitter user claimed a "member of the public lifted the car off the trapped pedestrian".

Anyone who saw what happened should email collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101, quoting Operation Seventy.