One woman has died after a minibus carrying women to a hen party was involved in a crash with a lorry on the M62 in West Yorkshire, police said.

The minibus was on its way to Liverpool when it was involved in the collision at junction 32 of the westbound carriageway of the M62 near Pontefract at about 11.30am, leaving some 19 people injured, six seriously.

The driver of the lorry, believed to be a local man, has been arrested in connection with the incident, West Yorkshire Police said.

Speaking at the scene Chief Inspector Mark Bownass, head of West Yorkshire Police's roads policing unit, said emergency services were called to a report of a collision between a large goods vehicle and a minibus from South Elmsall, near Pontefract.

"We believe the minibus at this time was heading to a hen party in Liverpool," he said.

"Sadly within this accident there has been one fatality."

He said one woman had died and other casualties had been taken to numerous local hospitals.