A CEMENT mixer has overturned on a busy main road resulting in traffic congestion during rush-hour.

The large vehicle went over on the exit slip road at Junction 25 of the A12 near Marks Tey and just before a roundabout.

Police officers, firefighters and paramedics are all reportedly at the scene and some motorists are said to have tried to pull the driver from the lorry's cab.

As a result of the incident traffic is building on all approaches.

UPDATE: The road has now reopened.

A spokesman for the Essex Fire Service said: "We were called to the A12/A120 at Marks Tey today at 8.18am to reports of a road traffic collision involving a large goods vehicle.

"Two crews from Colchester and two on-call crews, from Coggeshall and Witham, attended.

"A man was trapped in a cement mixer which was on its side. Firefighters, using a rescue platform and working with paramedics, rescued the man. They left him in the care of the Ambulance Service at 8.56am."

A spokesman for Essex Police added: "We were called to an overturned vehicle on the A12 near Marks Tey shortly after 8.15am today, Wednesday 23 March.

"The road re-opened at 9.15am."

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