A woman terrified by boy racers speeding round Maldon believes it will end in tragedy.

Helena Reynolds, of The Causeway, Heybridge, was woken just after midnight on Monday morning to the sound of screeching tyres.

She said: “I was terrified.

“They woke me up and were racing round and round and round for about twenty minutes.

“They were screeching so much and at one point I was waiting for the thud of a body on the road.”