An elderly woman has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car at the fayre on its busiest day.

East Anglian Daily Times: The woman was hit in the car park of the Arc shopping centre on the site of the former cattle market in Bury St Edmunds. Picture: MIKE PAGEThe woman was hit in the car park of the Arc shopping centre on the site of the former cattle market in Bury St Edmunds. Picture: MIKE PAGE (Image: Archant)

Suffolk police were called at 1.10pm today to a report that a car had hit someone in the Arc shopping centre car park in Parkway, Bury St Edmunds.

The female victim has been taken to West Suffolk Hospital for treatment.

A spokesman for Suffolk Constabulary said that they do not believe her injuries are life threatening at this time.

This has happened on the third and most popular day of the annual Christmas Fayre where tens of thousands of people are currently gathered.