A man has been taken to hospital suffering from back and neck injuries following a crash.
The incident happened in Head Street, Halstead, between Colchester Road and Morley Road at around 7.25am.
Two vehicles are thought to have collided.
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service Trust said: "We sent an ambulance crew which was on the scene within three minutes.
"We treated one patient for back and neck injuries and took him to Colchester General Hospital."
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