An 81-year-old woman is being treated in hospital after a crash in New Malden this afternoon.

Police closed Duke’s Avenue at the junction with High Street just after 3pm today.

Buses including the K1 were not going past New Malden station and were on diversion.

A London Ambulance spokeswoman said: “We were called today at 2.50pm to reports of a road traffic collision. We sent one ambulance unit a single responder in a car.

“Our staff treated one woman believed to be in her 80s who was taken to Kingston Hospital.”

The road has now been reopened following the crash.

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