Pensioners injured at road crossing

The elderly couple were involved in the accident at around 6.40pm on Easter Sunday on the A6102 Ridgeway Road dual carriageway in Sheffield.

It is thought the pair were hit by a silver Ford car as they waited on a pedestrian island in the central reservation of the busy road. A police spokesman said: "The car was travelling along Ridgeway Road towards the city centre when it was in collision with the elderly couple. They were crossing from the Newlands Road side of the carriageway towards the junction with Corker Road. At this stage in the investigation, it does not appear that the crossing had been activated."

The injured woman, who is 71 and from the Commonside area of Sheffield, suffered a dislocated left shoulder and a broken left arm. She was taken to the city's Northern General Hospital for treatment but not detained.

Her companion, who is 75 and also from Commonside, needed nine stitches after suffering a large gash in his arm. He was recovering in the Northern General Hospital yesterday.

The driver of the car, a 47-year-old man from the Charnock area of the city, was not injured.