A three-year-old child sustained minor injuries when she was hit by a car on Whitby Road in Ellesmere Port on Saturday (July 25).

The toddler was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital following the incident which happened at around 4pm, and kept in overnight as a precaution.

A spokesman for Cheshire Constabulary said: "We were called just after 4pm on Saturday, July 25, to a report of a road traffic collision on Whitby Road involving a three-year-old girl and a car.

"She suffered minor cuts and scrapes."