An elderly couple escaped serious injury after their car struck a wall in Smith’s this afternoon.

Police said the single-vehicle crash happened on Harrington Sound Road, near the junction with Devil’s Hole Hill, at about 1.15pm.

A police spokesman said: “It appears that the driver, believed to be an 82-year-old Smith’s Parish woman, struck a wall while travelling in the westbound lane.”

He said the woman and her husband, aged 83, who was in the front passenger seat, were not seriously hurt.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 295-0011.