POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a car failed to stop after it collided with a pedestrian in Richmond Market Place in the early hours of this morning.

At around 1.30am on January 1, a 20-year-old woman was walking across the Market Place on the cobbles when a car collided with her at low speed. She was knocked to the ground, although she was not seriously injured.

The vehicle involved is believed to have been a white, 66-plate BMW and is thought to have left the Market Place down King Street, passed Wetherspoons and turned right onto Dundas Street.

Anyone with information should call 101 and ask for PC 1707 Alan Fenney or quote reference number 12170000289.