A NINE-year-old boy has been hospitalised following a crash in Chafford Hundred earlier today (Friday).

The East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) were alerted to a report of an injured boy on Roseview Clifford Road in Chafford Hundred at 3.23pm.

Ambulance service spokesman Gary Sanderson said: “The young boy was treated and stabilised at the roadside by the ambulance crews before he was taken to Basildon Hospital for further care to a suspected fracture to his leg.”