AN intoxicated man has caused a road closure after lying in the road outside the Weighbridge Inn, Nailsworth.

Police received a report of a collapsed man in the Avening Road/B4014 at 3.36pm.

Officers are unsure of his injuries and were forced to close the road as a precaution.

Ambulance services are now on the scene.

It is understood that the gentleman in question had not been into the Weighbridge Inn but had been walking from Nailsworth.

For more information call police on 101 quoting incident number 286.