EMERGENCY services have been called to a crash involving a car and a pedestrian near Weymouth Beach.

The incident happened this afternoon outside St Johns Church on Dorchester Road, Greenhill.

Police and the ambulance service have attended and the casualty is being treated for injuries.

A spokesman for Dorset Police said: "We were called at 1.12pm on Tuesday 27 July to a report of a collision involving a car and a pedestrian outside St Johns Church on Dorchester Road in Weymouth.

"The pedestrian sustained minor injuries and was treated by the ambulance service."