LATEST NEWS: 74-year-old driver dies after crash near retail park
EMERGENCY services are at the scene of a crash at a retail park this evening.
The roundabout near Zizzi at Birstall Shopping Park is currently blocked.
The crash appears to have involved a white van and white Mitsubishi Colt.
One onlooker told the Telegraph & Argus: "I don’t really know what’s happened, just there’s been a crash."
They added there are "loads of police and ambulances" and said: "Traffic is absolute chaos along Gelderd Road.”
A Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokesperson said paramedics were called to the scene at 6.45pm.
They confirmed there was a collision, possibly after a driver suffering a medical incident at the wheel.
One patient has been taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
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