A WOMAN has been rushed to hospital with potentially life threatening injuries after a collision between a pedestrian and a truck earlier today.

Witnesses said she was seen lying in the middle of the zebra crossing in Prospect Street, Caversham, shortly after the incident at 11.40am.

The woman, thought to be aged between 50 and 60-years-old, sustained a "serious" head injury.

Staff from the nearby Prince of Wales pub said: "She was at the zebra crossing [in Prospect Street] and the paramedics were working on her.

"She was hurt, there was lots of blood, I thought I heard her murmuring, everybody was just shocked.

"When I walked past they were just talking to her and giving her oxygen.

"That's the second accident on this road in the space of a week."

The woman was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital by road ambulance, accompanied by doctors from an Air Ambulance which landed close to the scene.

Further emergency doctors from the enhanced care response unit were also called to the scene.

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Another witness, who did not want to be named, said: "We didn't hear anything then all of a sudden there was a lady on the floor. People walking past tried to help her and others were getting out of their cars. 

"There was one lady who was trying to help and she was bent over the woman. It was just a few minutes before the paramedics were here."

Investigators from Thames Valley Police were seen photographing a large white truck which had come to a standstill on the pavement.

A large pool of blood was also spotted close to the pavement at the end of the zebra crossing.

Police cordoned off the road for around four hours while they collected evidence and had the truck recovered from the scene.

 


 

An onlooking trader in the street, added: "It's all cordoned off at the zebra crossing.

"There were lots of police there and there are still a few cars around.

"Apparently someone was hit by a car on the crossing."

A spokesman for South Central Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 11.40am to reports of a road traffic collision involving a pedestrian and a truck.

"We have taken her to John Radcliffe Hospital by road, she has sustained serious injuries."