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A 12-year-old girl has been seriously injured in a hit-and-run car accident.

A car hit the girl at about 16:30 GMT on High Street in Warboys, Cambridgeshire.

Police said the victim sustained "serious but not life-threatening injuries" and was taken to Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon.

Officers have appealed for anyone to come forward who may have seen a "dark-coloured, old shape Nissan Micra" at the time of the incident .

Sgt Duncan Hall, from Cambridgeshire Police's road policing unit, said: "We believe the car... was travelling from the direction of the clock tower end of High Street, towards the junction with the pond in the middle of the village, when it hit the girl who was crossing the road.

"I am keen to hear from anyone who has information about who the driver is, or who witnessed the collision, as a matter of urgency."

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