A WOMAN and a ten-year-old boy have been taken to hospital after a collision in Colchester.

Shrub End Road was closed at the junction of Walnut Tree Way and King Harold Road between 9am and 10.20am this morning while the patients were treated by medics.

Emergency services were called shortly before 8.40am when a blue Ford Fiesta and a grey Citroen C1 struck each other.

One woman was trapped and freed by 9.11am.

There are no details of the pair’s injuries at the moment.

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