An elderly woman was killed after she was hit by a motorbike this morning.

The woman, who has not been named, was walking two dogs when she was involved in an accident with a motorcyclist on Chinnor Road in Kingston Blount shortly before 8am.

She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

The motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford with head and leg injuries.

Police closed the road to launch an investigation into the death.