READ: Calls mount for action at 'known accident spot' after serious crash
A DRIVER has been rushed to hospital after a large emergency presence, including the air ambulance, responded to a huge crash on a major road.
Police and fire and ambulance services were called out to the two-vehicle collision on Halifax Road, in Scholes, Cleckheaton, at around 9am on Monday.
A male patient was conveyed by road ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary.
It is believed a black BMW and a blue Renault were involved.
One onlooker said he saw what looked like a BMW 335i being taken away on a low loader at about 1pm.
He said the car looked to be in “quite a state” and added that it also looked like a substantial tree had been hit.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: "Police were called at 9.26am this morning (Monday, January 30) to reports of a two-vehicle collision on A649 in Scholes, Cleckheaton.
"The driver of one of the vehicles has been taken to hospital with serious injuries."
A Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We received a call of a report of a two-vehicle collision at 9.23am.
"We sent a road ambulance, air ambulance, a hazard area response team and a rapid response unit.
"One male patient was conveyed to Leeds General Infirmary by road ambulance."
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