A DRIVER “thought she was going to die” after a car travelling at 50mph crashed into her on the wrong side of the road. Anna Dawson, 41, was left shaken after a Range Rover veered in the wrong direction and drove the wrong way up an A127 slip road in Basildon. Mrs Dawson was driving her Audi A4 off the dual carriageway at the Noak Bridge junction, when she saw the four by four travelling at speed towards her. Her Audi was written off. Anna, from Billericay, explained how her three-year-old nephew, her new border collie puppy and her sister were all in the car at the time.
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Two children were among those evacuated from the building.
A spokeswoman for the East of England Ambulance Service confirmed that four of those checked over by ambulance staff were later taken to West Suffolk Hospital for further treatment.
Fire crews from Sudbury and Long Melford attended the fire as well as a crew from across the border from Halstead in Essex.
Crews used a thermal imaging camera to check the building and used positive pressure ventilation to help clear the smoke.
The fire was extinguished shortly after 8.47am.
The cause of the flat fire has not yet been confirmed.
Jack Owen, mayor of Sudbury and county councillor for the town, said that he was shocked to hear of the fire.