A WOMAN was “incredibly lucky” to have avoided serious injury following a crash with a lorry on the A127 this morning.
A car went underneath a lorry in the crash at the Halfway House junction shortly after 7am.
A van was also involved.
Ambulance officer Tony Huggins said: “The car had gone underneath the lorry and the female driver was incredibly lucky not to have been more seriously injured. She’d got out of the car when we arrived and had abdominal pain, but it wasn’t serious.”
The patient, thought to be in her 50s, was taken to Basildon Hospital. Another patient, a man in his 20s, was discharged at scene.
Traffic queued back to the Fairglen Interchange with congestion back to the A130 slip road.
The A13 was also closed at Sadlers Farm because of a broken down vehicle between Sadlers Farm and the Pitsea Flyover.
Motorists faced slow moving traffic on the Sadlers Farm Roundabout and all approaches to it.
An accident on the A13 Londonbound closed the road between Stanford le Hope and the Orsett Cock junction also caused congestion back to the Five Bells Interchange.
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