POLICE are searching for a driver who crashed into a disabled man and drove off.

At about 6.30pm on Friday a car crashed into a man in a wheelchair on a pedestrian crossing.

It took place near The Slug and Lettuce pub in Colchester High Street.

He suffered leg injuries as a result of the crash.

A spokesman for Essex Police said: "The vehicle make and model is not known. Officers would ask anybody who witnessed the collision to contact them as soon as possible."

Call PC Roy Linton at Stanway on Essex Police 101 quoting incident number 992 of July 3.