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Man arrested after hit-and-run incident in Belfast

News imageBBC Ambulance vehicles and a police car at the scene of an incident on a tree-lined residential street in Belfast. Four uniformed police officers stand at the open rear door of a bright yellow ambulance. A blue and white police tape cordon stretches across the road towards a terrace of three-storey red brick houses. A blue and white police car is parked sideways across the road in front of the cordon. BBC
A police cordon was put in place at the scene on Glandore Avenue

A man in his 50s has been taken to hospital following a hit-and-run incident in north Belfast.

The pedestrian was injured on Glandore Avenue at about 18:10 BST on Monday and police and ambulance staff, including an air ambulance crew, attended the incident.

The man was treated at the scene before being taken by ambulance to the Royal Victoria Hospital, but his injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Another man, 35, was later arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm and associated driving offences.