Search for driver after hit and run

POLICE are appealing for information after a 15-year-old boy broke his leg in a hit and run in Ashton.

Shortly before 7.35pm on Tuesday, police were called to reports of a fail-to-stop collision involving a car and a pedestrian on Wellington Road.

A lime green Ford Focus was travelling towards Ikea when it was involved in a collision with a 15-year-old boy who was taken to hospital with a leg broken in two places.

Police Constable Bailey, of GMP's Road Policing Unit, said: "If you have any information, or if you are the woman who stopped at the scene, please get in contact with police."

Contact police on 0161 856 8473 or 101 quoting reference number 1773 of 03/01/17 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.