Lower Wortley Ring Road: Driver taken to hospital with serious injuries after crashing into a tree in Leeds

One person has been seriously injured after a collision with a tree on Thursday.

Police were called to the Ring Road at Lower Wortley shortly before 6pm yesterday (November 16) to reports of a car crashing into a tree.

The driver was taken to hospital to receive treatment for serious, but not life-threatening, injures.

West Yorkshire Police wrote in a statement: "Police were called to the Ring Road at Lower Wortley at 5.46pm yesterday (Thursday) after a car was in collision with a tree.   

"The driver was taken to hospital and found to have serious injuries, which were not life threatening."

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