A man has died after a car left the road and smashed into a block of flats in Holt.

The 4x4-type vehicle was being driven along the town's Kerridge Way when the driver appears to have taken ill at the wheel.

Emergency services raced to the scene after the alarm was raised shortly after 5.30pm on Tuesday.

Police, fire and ambulance crews were all in attendance.

However, despite desperate efforts to save him, the casualty was pronounced dead at the scene.

For more on this story, pick up a copy of Wednesday's EDP.