Seven people - including a baby and a small child - were injured when they were hit by an elderly man's car during a Christmas fair.
A young child and a baby were rushed to hospital, alongside others, after a driver in his 80s ploughed into pedestrians at a Christmas fair.
Speaking to the BBC, she said: "We were just talking with the customers in front of our van. The car was parked, and suddenly we saw him accelerate coming out of his parking space and hit a couple of people. There was a mum with a baby in a pushchair in front of the car. Apparently at the back he has hit a few more people, a family. They had ambulances and police and fire all here in about five minutes.
A spokesperson for Avon and Somerset Police said: "We were called at midday on Sunday December 1 to a report of a car in a low-speed collision with pedestrians while manoeuvring out of a parking space. The driver - believed to be a man in his eighties - and seven pedestrians including five adults and two children were assessed by ambulance crew at the scene.
In a post on their Facebook page, they said: "As many of you are aware there has been an incident at the top of the High Street. We have been advised by the police not to cancel today's event so the remainder of the High Street from Hobbs House Bakery down towards Broad Street and Horse Street is still open.
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