Police were called to reports of a hit and run in Shooters Hill last night (April 9) which left a seven-year-old girl in hospital.

Officers were sent to Shrewsbury Lane, at with the junction of Occupation Lane, to reports of a "fail to stop collision" involving a car and a child at 7.30pm.

The child - believed to be seven-year-old girl - suffered undisclosed injuries. 

A spokesman for the London Ambulance Service said: "We sent an ambulance crew, paramedic in a car and a duty station officer to the scene.

"We treated a girl for leg injuries and she was taken, by the ambulance crew, as a priority to King's College hospital." 

The girl is believed to be in a stable condition. There have been no arrests so far.

Anyone with information is asked to call the police on 101.

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