A woman is in hospital following a collision involving a car and a lorry in north-east Essex.

Firefighters cut free the woman, believed to be 20 years old, from the wreckage of the crash on the A120 between Horsley and Ramsey, near Harwich, at around 7.20pm today.

She was freed by 8.15pm. An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said the woman suffered “multiple injuries not thought to be life-threatening”.

She was taken to Colchester General Hospital.