A pensioner is fighting for his life following a crash earlier today.

Police were called by the London Ambulance Service just before 10.30am to reports of a crash in Bedford Hill, near Balham High Road.

Officers, the LAS and London’s Air Ambulance attended and found that a van had collided with a pedestrian.

The man, aged in his 80s, has been taken to a west London hospital with life-threatening injuries.

No arrests have been made.