Heavy vehicular traffic is being reported after a car crashed into a lamp-post opposite the Castle Street hospital in Borella.

Police say that another two adjacent lamp-posts too had fallen over, adding that one of the lamp-posts had fallen onto a bus.

Police further added that no passengers in the bus had been injured.

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