Firefighters took more than an hour to cut a woman out of a car following an accident.

Crews had to use specialist cutting equipment to free a 17-year-old woman, of Colchester, who was trapped in a car follow a collision involving two cars in Braxted Road, Little Braxted, near to the Braxted Park Golf Course, yesterday.

The accident involved a black Volkswagen Golf GTI and a blue Ford Fiesta.

The air ambulance, two ambulances, an emergency medical team and a GP went to the scene and the woman was flown to Colchester General Hospital with a fractured pelvis, a head injury and cuts.

A 27-year-old male driver from Witham was taken to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, with neck, back and leg injuries.

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Published Monday, December 20, 2004

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