EMERGENCY services were called to help an injured woman after a car and van collided in Ipswich today.

EMERGENCY services were called to help an injured woman after a car and van collided in Ipswich today .

A red Volkswagen Golf and a white Mercedes box van crashed at St Helen's Street, near the Grimwade Street junction, at around 10am.

A woman in the car had neck injuries and had to be cut free by firefighters.

Police set up a traffic diversion using Rope Walk, as the accident blocked the road, but the road was clear by around 11.15am.