An 18-year-old youth has been arrested on the island of Crete after injuring two tourists with his car on Monday night.

The young man, who was found to have been driving without a license, ran through a pedestrian crossing in the city of Ierapetra and mowed into an Austrian couple.

Both had to be hospitalized, though the woman, aged 47, suffered more extensive injuries than her husband, 49, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.