A MAN has been charged with drink driving and failing to stop following a collision in Colchester.
Police were called to Butt Road shortly after 10.45pm on Saturday.
Witnesses reported seeing a car stopped in the middle of the road and officers searching nearby gardens.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "We have charged a man with drink driving and failing to stop after receiving reports of a collision.
"Ben Knowles, 28, of Granville Road, Colchester, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, May 24.
"We received a call at around 10.45pm after a car collided into a park car.
"The car was abandoned and after making enquiries at the scene, we arrested a man at an address in Magdalen Green, Colchester, at around 12.20am."
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