COMMUTERS have been left with heavy tailbacks this evening after a car crashed into a lamppost.

Police were called to the scene of an accident at the junction of Wigan Road and Lock Lane in Hunger Hill at about 5.15pm.

The driver of a silver Hyundai had hit a lamppost at a pedestrian crossing, with all three emergency services in attendance and the road blocked for a while.

A man in his fifties was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital but it is not believed his injuries were serious.