POLICE are still waiting to hear from a delivery driver who is believed to have been caught up in an attempted car-jacking.

Officers are still hunting a man who tried to drag a 13-year-old from her family’s Ford C-Max as they waitied in traffic in Cherrydown East, Basildon, on Friday morning.

The girl was with her parents, Lyndsey and Robert Jordan, and five-yearold brother when the man opened a passenger door and tried to pull her out.

The girl grappled with him and shoved him out of the car, at which point her dad managed to drive off.

However, as the family, of Whitmore Way, Basildon, looked back, they saw the attacker jump into the passenger seat of a brown UPS van. Police say they have not been contacted by the delivery driver or UPS.

It is not known whether the driver was harmed, or managed to fight off the would-be car-jacker.

The Echo contacted UPS on Friday and Monday, but the company has so far not commented on the incident.

It is thought the attacker was being chased through Cherrydown East by another man.

The Jordan family say their attacker was black, dressed in black trousers and a black hoodie. He wore black trainers with distinctive luminous orange soles.

Anyone with information about the incident should contact Basildon police station on 101.