Leeds news Live: Serious crash closes New Road in Yeadon as police forensic investigators arrive
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Police forensic investigators are on the scene of a crash on New Road at the junction with Dibb Lane and Kirk Lane in Yeadon.
The force is calling the incident a serious RTC and is asking drivers to avoid the area.
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A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said: “ROAD CLOSED - A65 New Road jct Kirk Lane and Dibb Lane, Yeadon, Leeds due to a serious RTC. Please avoid the area.”
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service based at Rawdon station said: "Two engines attended, one from Rawdon and one Cookrdige.
"On our arrival ambulance and police were already in attendance, four ambulances and I think six police cars.
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Hide Ad"The BMW was smashed up, believed to be coming down from the Aldi from Yeadon town centre, towards Dibb Lane.
"When we arrived paramedics were working on a lady, age unknown, and the driver was in the ambulance getting checked over.
"Our crews had to cut a little bit of the metal away so the ambulance crews had more access
"Crews assisted the ambulance crews getting her onto a stretcher where she was taken then to the LGI"
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A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service said: "We got a call at 3.10am to the junction of Dibb Lane and New Road in Yeadon
"We sent two ambulances, a clinical supervisor and a hazardous area response team
"We attended the scene and took two patients to Leeds General Infirmary.
"And we left the scene 4.15am."