A MAN has died after a single vehicle crash on a country road.

Emergency services were called to the B2124 Laughton Road, in Laughton, at just after 10pm on Friday.

They discovered a blue ford Focus, which had been travelling westbound towards Ringmer, had smashed into a tree and ended up in a brick wall.

A 27-year-old local man died at the scene.

The road was closed for around four hours for accident investigation work.

Witnesses are asked to email Sussex Police on collision.appeal@sussex.pnn.police.uk or call 101, quoting Operation Sedgehill.