A 63-year-old driver escaped serious injury when her car hit a wall in Hamilton Parish last night.

Emergency crews were called to the single vehicle crash on North Shore Road near East Point Lane at about 8.45pm.

A police spokesman said the woman, from Smith’s, who was driving west when the crash happened, was not seriously hurt.

She was taken by ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital as a precaution.

Traffic was diverted while investigations were carried out at the scene and the damaged car was towed away.

Witnesses were asked to call police on 295-0011.