A van overturned and destroyed a garden wall in a crash with a car in Benfleet.

The two vehicles crashed in Kents Hill Road on Sunday, with a passenger left in hospital and with injuries.

Images show the car and van in the road and the garden wall badly damaged. There was also debris from the vehicles left in the road.

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James Evans, 28, from Benfleet, was a passenger in the van and was signed off work due to feeling sore and numb all over.

He said: "I damaged my L6 Vertebrae and some trauma to a disc in my back, shoulder is just battered and bruised.

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"I was feeling numb, adrenaline was running high, it was only once I got into the ambulance it kind of hit me."

He insisted it was a "freak" crash and took to social media about the incident.