A TEENAGER has appeared in court following a horrific crash which left a boy with life threatening injuries.

Emergency services were called to Nayland Road, Great Horkesley, just after 2.30am on a morning in January after reports a Volkswagen Golf came off the carriageway and flipped over.

A 13-year-old boy was left with life threatening injuries.

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There were five other people in the car aged between 13 and 18 arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs, failing to stop and failing to report a collision.

Police have now charged an 18-year-old with failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle.

The others who were arrested remain under investigation.

A spokesman for Essex Police said: "A man has will stand trial for a driving offence next February.

"Johnny O’Donoghue, of Bashley Road in Park Royal, London, was summonsed to Basildon Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge of failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle when required on Wednesday September 11.

"He will next appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court for his trial on 21 February 2020.

"It follows reports of a serious collision in Nayland Road, Great Horkesley, on Tuesday January 29 this year."

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service were called to the scene after the crash and had to release one person who was trapped in the vehicle after it flipped onto its side.

The East of England Ambulance Service scrambled their hazardous Area Response Team (HART), five ambulances, a rapid response vehicle, an ambulance officer and a volunteer doctor from the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service.

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Four people were transferred to Colchester Hospital including the 13-year-old who was in a critical condition at the time.

Nayland Road, which is the A134, was closed from the junction between Boxted Church Road and Tog Lane and the junction of London Road for ten hours after the smash.