A woman has been taken to hospital after a multi-vehicle crash. 

Freebournes Road is blocked just before the junction of Colchester Road (B1389) due to the crash, which happened at about 2.49pm. 

A spokesman for the ambulance service said: "We sent an ambulance crew and rapid response vehicle, the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance also attended.

"The fire and rescue service attended to extricate one female casualty, in her 30s, who was taken by ambulance to Broomfield Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

"There was a second casualty who was walking wounded."

Update 4.50pm: Firefighters were called to assist and worked with paramedics to release one female who was trapped in her vehicle.