A PEDESTRIAN was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a car crashed in Maldon Road, Colchester.

Essex Police were called to reports of a collision between a black Volkswagen polo and a pedestrian shortly before 10.30pm on Sunday.

A spokesman added: “A man in his 40s was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening or changing injuries.”

An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman said it attended and took a man to Colchester General Hospital with suspected head injuries.

No arrests have been made.

Witnesses are asked to contact Essex Police on 101.