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CAR STRIKE ON STOKES CROFT

Someone got hit by a car on Stokes Croft. They crossed the road, well almost, they didn’t get to the other side but got runover.
Here’s the story as it appeared on BBC Bristol online:

Man in hospital after car crash
Part of a road in Bristol has been closed after a car hit a pedestrian.
The accident happened at about 1500 BST outside the Stokes Croft Post Office on Cheltenham Road. Diversions have been set up in the area.
It is thought that the pedestrian, a man in his 60s, suffered a heart attack.
He was taken to the Bristol Royal Infirmary. His condition is not known. A police spokesman said it was not known when the road would reopen.

When I arrived at ten past five there were police cars parked and incident tape stretched across both lanes traffic not getting further than the City Road junction to just beyond Hepburn Road down which pedestrians were directed by an officer standing on the far corner.
‘We can go up this way,’ she said.
‘You sure?’ he said.
‘Yes,’ pointing up the road by DHS, ‘up there the along and come down Ninetree.’
‘Oh yes,’ he said.
‘Guys,’ said the woman, ‘you’ve got to give me something I’ve got a story to write.’
The officer stood by the police car and seemed to be thinking about what she’d said.
‘We’ll let you know.’