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."