A MAN has been hospitalised after being involved in a car crash.

The man was sent to Southend hospital after the incident on the A127 this morning, at around 7am.

Nobody else was hurt in the crash at the Kent Elms junction.

A spokesman for the ambulance service, said: "We were called at 7.01am with reports of a collision on the A127 in Leigh on Sea.

"We sent one ambulance and took a man to Southend University Hospital for further care."