An 80-year-old woman was knocked down by a car on Saturday morning near the seafront promenade in Burgas, police said.

The driver, a 35-year-old man from the village of Chubra, was reversing and hit her, police say. She was on foot.

The woman has a bruised chest. Her life is not in danger.

Doctors examined her at the University Hospital in Burgas and sent her home to recover.