North Essex: Strood driver saved (From Gazette)

North Essex: Strood driver saved

6:17am Monday 30th June 2008

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A DRIVER was pulled free by firefighters after her car smashed through barriers on a causeway, landing in the water.

Emergency services faced a race against time to save the woman, whose car veered off The Strood, the road from Peldon to Mersea Island, with the tide rising.

The woman, believed to be in her 30s, was pulled to safety just after the water reached the car's windows.

She taken by helicopter to Colchester General Hospital.

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