A person has been taken to hospital after suffering injuries from a mobility scooter.

Paramedics were outside The Mall shopping centre in Maidstone this afternoon, by the Gabriel's Hill entrance.

A Secamb spokesman said: "At around 12.40pm we received a call to a person with an ankle injury believed to have been caused by a mobility scooter.

At this stage it is not clear whether the patient was the driver of the mobility scooter or a passer-by.

One ambulance was called to the scene.

The patient was treated outside the shopping centre and then taken to Maidstone Hospital.

Their injuries are not thought to be serious.

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