A SCHOOLGIRL has been hospitalised after suffering serious injuries in a crash this afternoon (Monday, April 24). 

Emergency services were scrambled to the scene of a collision between a car and a child pedestrian just after 3pm today on Keighley Road, Denholme.

A spokesperson for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service said: "We received an emergency call at 3.08pm this afternoon to reports of a schoolgirl knocked down on Keighley Road in the Denholme area of Bradford.

"An ambulance was dispatched to the scene and the patient was conveyed to Airedale Hospital."

A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said earlier: "It was a collision involving a car and child pedestrian on Keighley Road, Denholme.

"The child suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

"Traffic was turned around and diverted onto Ogden Lane."