Teenager taken to hospital with serious head injuries after being hit by car near Buckingham Palace

A teenager has been taken to hospital with serious head injuries after she was hit by a car near Buckingham Palace.

London Ambulance Service were called to reports of a road traffic collision involving a pedestrian on Constitution Hill by the Queen Victoria Memorial just before 8.30am on Thursday.

"We sent an ambulance crew, a medic in a car, an incident response officer and a medic on a motorbike to the scene. We also dispatched London's Air Ambulance,” a spokeswoman said.

"We treated a woman at the scene for head injuries and took her to a major trauma centre by road."

A spokeswoman for Met Police said: "Police were called at 08:21hrs on Thursday, 25 July to reports of a road traffic collision in Constitution Hill, SW1A.

"Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found a car in collision with a female pedestrian.

"The pedestrian, aged in her late teens, has been taken to a central London hospital. We await an update on her condition.

"Road closures are in place."

Constitution Hill remains closed between Hyde Park Corner and The Mall.

One witness tweeted a picture of the air ambulance outside the palace.

Another said “two police bikes, five cars, two vans, two ambulances and an air ambulance” arrived in the space of “a couple of minutes”.