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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.