A 17-YEAR_OLD boy has been taken to hospital with a broken leg after he was in collision with a car in Lowestoft.

Police and the ambulance service were called to the junction of Water Lane and St Peter's Street at 12.40pm today (Thursday) following reports that a 'car was in collision with with a pedestrian.'

The teenager was in collision with a black Nissan car, and a police spokesman said: 'A 17-year-old boy was taken to the James Paget University Hospital with a broken leg.'