A man has died after the car he was driving careered off the road and collided with a house before hitting a tree.
Police and the ambulance service were called to the collision, which happened on Steeple Road, St Lawrence, but the driver of the blue Peugeot 206 was sadly declared dead at the scene by paramedics.
The collision, which happened on Tuesday morning at about 2.30am woke the tenant of the house, Debbie Yates, who thought a tree had fallen down after hearing a “big bang” before realising what happened.
“It’s just so tragic,” she said.
See today's Maldon and Burnham Standard for the full story
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