A MAN has been sectioned after lying down in the middle of a busy road.
Police were called to Avon Way, Greenstead, Colchester shortly after 11.30am yesterday.
A man in his 50s, who was trying to get himself run over, was removed by police and sectioned under the Mental Health act.
Eye witnesses praised those drivers who stopped, swerved and helped him.
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