A Rydens School girl has been taken to hospital after a car hit her in West Molesey this morning.

The 11-year-old was getting a Rydens School bus in Hurst Road at about 8am when a car, thought to be a Nissan Almera, hit her according to witnesses.

The girl was taken to Kingston Hospital by ambulance and witnesses at the scene said she had a suspected broken leg.

A police spokesman said the girl had serious leg and internal injuries.

They said: "Her condition is described as serious, but not life threatening."

The girl’s friends were picked up from the road side by their parents at 9.30am.

An onlooker said: “I looked out and saw loads of traffic and people crowded around a girl on the side of the road.

"She must have been moved by her friends or passersby after she got hit.

“They were lots of kids in the bus stop on the opposite side and a few kids on the bus but they are all gone now.”

A Rydens School bus and several cars remain inside a police cordon at the junctions of Molesham Way and Dunstall Way.

A former Esher High pupil who used to get the bus from the same point said: "I used to get the bus here and kids were often messing around.

"I used to run across the road to meet my mates and didn’t really care, I would just walk across.

"I saw someone hit here before, about four or five years ago, there have been lots of close calls."

A resident Park Way, which runs parallel to Hurst Road, said: "There’s so much traffic down here in the morning, there’s always the screeching of brakes."