A woman has been hospitalised after an accident involving a forklift truck.

The East of England Ambulance Service as alerted to reports of a pedestrian in collision with the vehicle in Caxton Way, Thetford, at 10am on Thursday.

Ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: 'A woman who we believe to be in her 50s sustained back and head injuries in the collision.'

She was taken by ambulance to West Suffolk General Hospital.