A CAR drove the wrong way down the A13 causing another car to crash into the central reservation.

Police were called shortly after 2am on Sunday September 28 after reports a fight had broken out in the car park of Essex Sports Village in Purfleet Road, Aveley.

A man was slightly injured during the fight.

A number of men were seen leaving the car park in a silver Mercedes at speed and joined the A13, driving towards Basildon on the wrong carriageway.

The car is believed to have caused a road crash in which a vehicle took avoiding action and collided with the central reservation.

The driver was unharmed but badly shaken.

Firefighters cut the man out of his car on the Southend-bound carriageway of the A13 between Five Bells and the Pitsea Flyover.

Anyone with information about the incidents should contact Insp Lee Argent at Grays on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.