Pedestrian seriously injured after a collision with a van in Broughton on Saturday night

Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision on Saturday night which left a pedestrian with serious injuries.

The accident happened near to the junction of Queensway and the A5104 Main Road in Broughton just after 9.39pm on Saturday evening when a Ford Transit panel van collided with a male.

The road was closed for nearly four hours from the Airbus roundabout along the A5104 to the roundabout near junction 35 of the A55.

Diversions were set up as as emergency services dealt with the incident.

The road was reported to have reopened at around 1.30am.

Sgt Nicky Collins from the North Wales Police Roads Police Unit said:

We are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision which happened on the A5104 Main Road at the junction with Queensway in Broughton at 9.39pm on Saturday night.

A silver Ford Transit panel van collided with a pedestrian who received serious injuries and is in the Countess of Chester hospital.

Anybody who witnessed the collision or has any information should call 101 quoting RC17003174

A spokesman for the Welsh Ambulance Service said;

We were called at about 9.35pm on Saturday 7^th January to reports that a pedestrian had been hit by a car in Broughton.

We sent a paramedic in a rapid response vehicle and a crew in an emergency ambulance to the scene and a man was taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital with serious injuries