Police are appealing for information after a man exited a car while it was travelling along the A1(M) near Stevenage.

At around 7.45pm on Saturday, the man, in his late 20s, was travelling on the northbound carriageway in a white BMW.

Just before Junction 7 for Stevenage, he exited the car and came to rest on the hard shoulder, suffering a serious head injury.

He was take to hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Sergeant AJ Boddington, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Road Policing Unit, said: “We are currently working to establish the circumstances surrounding the incident and are appealing for anyone who saw what happened, or events leading up to it, to please come forward.”

If you have any information, call the non-emergency number 101, quoting ISR 662 of April 13, 2019, or report online at herts.police.uk/Report.