A TEENAGER suffered a serious head injury after a collision with a motorbike this morning (Friday).
The 18-year-old was taken to the major trauma centre at St George's Hospital's, in Tooting, as a priority following the crash in Lloyd Park Avenue shortly before 9am.
London Ambulance Service (LAS) have said she was conscious and breathing.
The motorcyclist, an 18-year-old boy, suffered shoulder pain and has been taken to Croydon University Hospital.
An LAS spokesperson said: "We were called just before 9am to reports of a road traffic collision involving a motorbike and a pedestrian.
"We sent a single responder in a car and two ambulance crews to the scene.
"Staff treated two patients, one reported to be an 18-year-old girl, a pedestrian, for a serious head injury.
"She was conscious and breathing when taken to hospital.
"The other, an 18-year-old male, was treated for shoulder pain and taken to hospital."
The road had been closed after the crash but it has now been reopened. Did you see what happened? Contact the Advertiser on gareth.davies@croydonadvertiser.co.uk
