A TEENAGER has been arrested for aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving following a crash in Worcester.

Officers were alerted to the theft at 11.20am this morning as a car crashed into a pedestrian crossing at the junction of City Walls Road and Lowesmoor in Worcester.

A silver Volkswagen Bora was recovered from the Lowesmoor junction with City Walls and a 17-year-old male from Worcester has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated taking of a motor vehicle, fail to stop, dangerous driving, driving other wise in accordance with a driving licence and no insurance.

A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: "Nobody was injured as a result of this incident and our enquiries are ongoing."

Reports so far received indicate the driver ran off and four police cars headed off in pursuit of a driver and passenger following the crash this morning.

The silver VW Bora TDI suffered damage to the driver's side and bumper and part of the pedestrian crosssing has been damaged and is leaning at an angle. Oil has leaked over the pavement.

A witness who declined to be named said: "I heard skidding and a loud bang. I looked up and went to the door. I could see two people had got out of the car and run down Lowesmoor. They got out of the car very fast and legged it. They just bolted.

"A marked and an unmarked police car carried on in pursuit after the crash."

He estimates the men he saw were in their late teens or early 20s.

He believes they turned down an alleyway halfway along Lowesmoor where the police, still in their cars, could not follow.

 Anyone with any information is asked to contact police on 101 quoting the incident reference 228s 28 February.