A DRIVING instructor has crashed into a tree causing traffic delays in the Epping and Theydon Bois area this afternoon.

The man came off the road at around 4.15pm in Coppice Row, about 100 metres from the Wake Arms roundabout.

No other vehicles were involved.

A police spokeswoman said the man told ambulance crews at the scene he was suffering from back and neck pain following the smash.

The emergency services are at the scene and the road is expected to be closed for a short while fire-fighters cut him from the wreckage.