A MAN is due to appear before Grays Magistrates charged with dangerous driving and witness intimidation.

He is being brought to court after a 63-year-old woman from Watford suffered a serious head injury in an accident on the M25.

The man, 21, from Dartford, Kent, was arrested following a road traffic accident between junctions 29 and 30 near South Ockendon on May 19.

The injured woman was a passenger in a Honda Jazz which was in collision with a Renault Clio. She was taken to Queen's Hospital, Romford, for treatment but was later released.

The man will appear in court in Grays on October 11.

The woman was taken to Queen's Hospital, Romford, for treatment and has since been released, Essex Police said.