A 66-YEAR-OLD holidaymaker was taken to hospital after falling and hitting her head on new kerbing in Cirencester.

Christine Vivian, from Swansea, was enjoying a short break in the town with her husband on Tuesday (August 16) when she tripped on a troublesome kerb on Castle Street, bruising her head and ribs.

The new lowered kerb design is part of a nine-month redevelopment project, due to be completed in November, to further pedestrianise the town centre and help ease the traffic flow.

Christine said: “We were walking outside Tidings when I tripped where the kerb tails off, which I didn’t notice.

“The staff [at Tidings] looked after me and phoned for an ambulance and gave me some ice to put on my head for the swelling and bruising. They were brilliant. I can’t thank them enough.”

A spokesman for South Western Ambulance confirmed a call was made at 5.22pm and crews responded to a female patient in her 60s who had suffered head injuries.

Christine was taken to Great Western Hospital at 6.20pm.

“I was at hospital for three or four hours getting scans and being checked over,” she said.

“There was no blood so I didn’t need stitches and was released the same day.

“I’m a nurse so if I’d recognised any symptoms, like headache or dizziness, I would have gone back.”

Christine underwent knee replacement surgery 14 weeks ago and the fall has meant her recovery has had to be put on hold as she rests up back in Swansea.

“It’s set me back, unfortunately. I haven’t been walking around and it’s meant my knee has gone a bit stiff,” she admitted.

Following the incident, Christine and her husband, who like to travel around the country in their motorhome, are now wary of heading back to Cirencester as plans to add similar kerbing across the Market Place are being implemented.