A MAN was rushed to hospital after his car crashed into a lamppost outside a college.

A grey Toyota Carina flipped onto its roof after smashing into a lamppost at a crossing outside Futures college on Southchurch Boulevard, Southend at 5pm this evening (Friday).

Police officers and ambulance crews were on the scene in minutes to get the driver, a man, out of the car.

Police closed the road while they cleared the car from the road.

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