A CAR has burst into flames at a busy roundabout in Colchester.

The red hatchback car caught fire at the junction of Cymbeline Way and the Colne Bank Roundabout yesterday at around 5.45pm.

No one is thought to have been hurt.

A spokesman for the fire service said: "We were called to a car fire on the Avenue of Remembrance at 5.49pm.

"We sent one crew from Colchester.

"It was extinguished by 6.09pm."