Road traffic collision: two people released

Firefighters rescued two people from the scene of a road traffic collision earlier this evening, when a car left the M11 between J9 and J10, Northbound.

Crews were called to a road traffic collision which happened at around 5:01pm today.

On arrival, firefighters reported that there were two people trapped in a car which had flipped and was stuck in a ditch at the side of the road.

Crews used specialist equipment to release both of the people, and they were left in the care of the Ambulance Service by 5:51pm.

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Firefighters from Newport and Saffron Walden are on-call Firefighters, who all live or work within 5 minutes of an on-call fire station and attend incidents.

If you live or work within 5 minutes of an on-call fire station, you could be an on-call firefighter too.

Find out more about the role at essex-fire.gov.uk/on-call