More updates on the condition of the injured pedestrian will follow on the Burton Mail’s website when we have them.
Burton Mail readers have been sending in messages of support on Facebook.
Jean Fletcher said: “Oh dear, I hope everyone is okay.”
Simon Stokes also sent his best wishes: “Hope all is okay.”
Lichfield Street is still partially blocked according to traffic monitor, Inrix.
A spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service has provided an update on the injuries suffered by the pedestrian.
The spokesman said: “The elderly man has been air lifted to the Royal Stoke University Hospital with serious head injuries.”
Burton Mail reader, Simon Stokes, sent in these pictures of the air ambulance as it came in to land.
Reports from the scene suggest that the pedestrian involved has suffered head injuries and is in the process of being air-lifted to hospital.
It is unclear which hospital the patient is being transferred to.
Motorists are being urged to avoid the area as the road remains partially blocked while the emergency services deal with the incident.
A spokesman for Staffordshire Police said that an elderly man is to be air-lifted to hospital following the collision.
The spokesman said: “We received a call at 2.10pm to a collision involving a moped and an elderly man. The elderly man is going to be air-lifted to hospital, though his injuries are not thought to be life threatening or life changing.”
There has been an accident in Buton near Fleet Street.
Lichfield Street is currently blocked and the air ambulance is in attendance.
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