A MAN has died after a crash in Westcliff

Emergency services were called last night after the man, in his forties, was in collision with a red Ford Focus in Salisbury Avenue, Westcliff, at about 7.40pm.

Despite the first ambulance arriving within three minutes and the East Anglian Air Ambulance landing at Southend High School for Boys, nothing could be done to save him and he sadly died at the scene after suffering cardiac arrest.

Essex Police officers taped off the road from the Balmoral Centre to the junction with Cliff Avenue.

A spokesman for the police said a 27-year-old man from Southend was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing death by careless driving and driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs.

A spokesman for the ambulance service said: “We were called at 7.41pm to reports of a road traffic accident involving a pedestrian at Salisbury Avenue and despatched two ambulance crews, a rapid response vehicle, an ambulance officer, and the East Anglian Air Ambulance based in Cambridge.

“The first ambulance was on the scene within three minutes where we treated a man in his forties who had gone into cardiac arrest and, despite the best efforts of everyone involved, he was pronounced dead at the scene.”

A resident of Balmoral Road, who wishes to remain anonymous, said: “I saw everywhere was cordoned off with police tape. The road was also blocked off and you couldn’t go down there. It looked like a really bad accident. It doesn’t surprise me that that’s happened round here."

Sue Griggs, 54, of Windsor Road, said: “I saw the whole area was cordoned off when I got home about 10pm. I have lived here for 6 years and there has not been an accident in that time.”

Essex Police say any witnesses to the collision, who have not yet spoken to police, are asked to contact the Serious Collision Unit on Essex Police 101 quoting incident 882 of February 3.

They can also email details to collisionappeal@essex.pnn.police.uk

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Posted by Essex Police on Thursday, 4 February 2016