AN 82-year-old woman's arm was bruised when her coat caught in the door of a car as it set off.

Joan Rushton, of Langroyd Road, Colne, had got out of a Vauxhall Cavalier car in Market Street.

Driver, 62-year-old Gordon Lowe, of Burnley Road, was unaware and started to drive away, pulling Mrs Rushton to the ground. She did not need hospital treatment.

The accident happened at 11.25am yesterday.

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