A CYCLIST has been seriously injured after he was involved in a crash with a lorry in Hereford on Friday afternoon.

At 2.57pm West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a crash between a lorry and a cycle at the junction of Three Elms Road and Canon Pyon Road, where the roads meet at the A4103 Roman Road.

A spokesperson for the service added: "We sent one ambulance and a paramedic officer to the scene. We also sent a BASICs doctor.

"On arrival we discovered one patient, a male who was the cyclist.

"He was treated for serious, but not life threatening, injuries and taken to Hereford County Hospital."