Three people have been injured after a driver lost control and ploughed into a cyclist and two pedestrians outside Kingston station.

A woman has been flown by air ambulance to hospital with lower limb injuries but in a stable condition.

The grey BMW hit a brick wall and crashed into a bus after travelling the wrong way down the one way system at Clarence Street.

A traffic officer said the driver had hit a cyclist at the pedestrian crossing outside Cappadocia restaurant.

He is reported to have told officers he lost control, putting his foot on the throttle, instead of the brakes.

A woman was being treated by paramedics in a stretcher by a pile of brick rubble in the central island between the station, Cappadocia and the Rotunda.

A man on the other side of the road, the cyclist, was being also treated.

An air ambulance landed at Kingston bus station and took a third woman away.

Shocked pedestrians surveyed the damage, as the BMW, with its hazard lights flashing, rested about three foot off the ground held up by the wall.

Sam Pettitt, 21, a student who lives in Fife Road, said: "I only looked out because of the honking of the horns and someone was shouting out 'what the hell are you doing?'.

"I'm surprised it was not worse than it was. There were a lot of people."

Oil or fluid seeped out of the bottom of the 111 bus, which had just stopped at Kingston bus station before crossing into Clarence Street to head toward the direction of Kingston bridge.

Police taped off the area outside Cappadocia restaurant in Fife Road.

Eyewitness Billy Cole, 19, said the driver of the car came out of Fife Road and drove the wrong way towards the one way system.

He said: "I was holding her neck [the injured woman] for about 45 minutes. Her leg is smashed in some places.

"She might be paralysed, we don't know."

He added that he had been told she had been hit by two cars.

Police were called just before 6pm to reports of a collision with five pedestrians.

A police spokesman said: "At this early stage it is believed a car, a grey BMW 3-series, was in collision with a pedestrian in Fife Road, Kingston.

"The car then drove off from the scene, turning the wrong way into Clarence Street before colliding with a number of pedestrians. The car then collided with a double decker bus.

"One woman, no further details, was treated at the scene before being airlifted to hospital.

"The other pedestrians are not thought to be seriously injured.

"The driver of the car is also being treated for injuries and will be taken to hospital - he has not been arrested."

Ahmed Khalaf said: "I heard a loud bang and I saw the last part where the car came and hit the wall."

He said he heard several large bangs as the car scraped along the wall before smashing into the side of the bus.