An inquest into the death of a Douglas woman was opened and adjourned at the town's courthouse this afternoon (Friday).

Christina Collister, 37, died in November last year, two weeks after a being knocked down by a car.

She suffered severe leg injuries in the accident, at the National Sports Centre.

The preliminary cause of death was given as a pulmonary embolism.

Investigations are continuing and coroner John Needham expressed the hope that proceedings could progress quickly.

A pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the main artery of the lung, or one of its branches, by a substance that has travelled through the bloodstream from elsewhere in the body.

This is often a blood clot from the deep veins in the legs.