A woman pedestrian who died following a collision with a car has been named as Nimmi Shah.

Police are appealing for witnesses after Miss Shah, 38, was in collision with a red Renault Clio at the bottom of a slip road to the Colchester bound carriageway of the A120, near the London Road junction.

The emergency services raced to the scene at 7.30pm yesterday.

Ms Shah of Beadon Drive, Braintree, was taken to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, where she later died.

The 21-year-old Braintree man, who had been driving the Clio, was uninjured.