A woman has been left with "life-changing" injuries after being hit by a car on a busy road.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Penarth Road at the back of Cardiff central station on Tuesday afternoon.
The female pedestrian was taken to the University Hospital of Wales with what officers described as "life-changing injuries".
South Wales Police said: "At 1.30pm emergency services were called to a road traffic collision involving a car and a female pedestrian on Penarth Road at the rear of Cardiff Central Railway Station.
"The injured pedestrian has been taken to the University Hospital of Wales with what are described as life changing injuries."
A number of nearby roads were closed while the incident was being dealt with.
Images from the scene show a number of emergency vehicles in attendance and parts of the cordon.
The Welsh Ambulance Service also attended and sent four emergency vehicles to the scene.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: “We were called on Tuesday May 4 at approximately 13.30 to reports of a collision between a car and a pedestrian near Cardiff Central Station.
"We responded with one rapid response vehicle, two emergency ambulances and one vehicle from the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service. One patient was transported to University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.”
