A driver has hit a pillar outside a bank in the centre of a market town.

Suffolk police were called to Cornhill, in Bury St Edmunds, after reports that an elderly driver had hit the pillar outside Barclays Bank.

A spokesman for Suffolk police said there was only a low level of damage as a result of the collision and said that passers-by had been over to help the driver.

No-one was injured as a result of the incident.

Officers remain at the scene.

East Anglian Daily Times: The pillar was damaged in the collisionThe pillar was damaged in the collision (Image: St Edmundsbury Police)