An 11-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after she was hit by a car on Monday.

Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School pupil Georgina Pitt, 11, was walking along Nackington Road at 4pm to meet her father who teaches at the nearby Langton Boys' School.

The accident happened at the junction of The Foreland and The Gap when it is thought Georgina bent down to pick up her mobile phone.

Georgina, who lives in Eythorne, was airlifted by the Kent Air Ambulance to the intensive care unit at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.

Headteacher at Langton Girls, Jane Robinson, spoke with Georgina’s parents on Monday night and said they were “very shocked”.

She added tutors had told their classes about the incident on Tuesday morning.

Mrs Robinson said: “She is still being looked after and cared for but she has had a lot of scans and appears to be OK, which is great.

“We still don’t know exactly how it happened."

The driver of the car, a people carrier, was not hurt.

Police closed Nackington Road until 7.45pm.