FIRE crews were called to cut free a 75-year-old woman, after her car crashed into an underground loading bay.

FIRE crews were called to cut free a 75-year-old woman, after her car crashed into an underground loading bay.

Three crews from Colchester were called at 2.37pm after reports of a car colliding with a loading bay at a shopping centre in Vineyard Street, Colchester.

Crews used one set of specialist cutting equipment to cut the roof off the vehicle and the woman was cut free by 3.07pm.