Firefighters cut a 64-year-old woman from her car after a three vehicle crash on the A128 near Orsett.
Emergency - the injured driver is lifted out of her car after the roof was cut off Picture: ESSEX AMBULANCE SERVICE
Emergency services arrived to find one car lying on its side.
Paramedics began treating the driver, from Horndon-on-the-Hill, while firefighters cut the roof off the car.
Steve Wheaton, senior operations manager with Essex Ambulance Service, said: "She was taken to Basildon Hospital with back and neck pain. She was very lucky not to have been far more seriously injured."
The other drivers escaped injury.
Published Tuesday August 24, 2004
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