Firefighters rescued an injured man from a car crash in Essex last night.

Crews spent more than an hour and a half assisting at the scene of the crash to the south of Chelmsford.

Two crews from the city were called at around 9.45pm to reports of a road traffic collision in Stock Road.

“One injured male was rescued from his vehicle by firefighters following a road traffic collision in Chelmsford last night,” a spokesman for Essex County Fire and Rescue Service said. “Fire crews worked with paramedics to release the casualty by 11.25pm.”

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust said two crews went tot the scene of the collision.

“A man in his 20s was taken to Broomfield Hospital with a back injury,” a spokesman added.