Wakefield woman, 93, dies five weeks after Netherton collision
Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision near Wakefield after an elderly woman passenger died nearly five weeks later.
The 93-year-old woman, from Wakefield, had been a front seat passenger in a red Hyundai i10 that had been involved in a collision with a parked white Ford Transit camper van in Netherton Lane, Netherton, near to the junction with Netherton Hall Drive, at 12.10pm on Tuesday, February 24.
The Hyundai had been travelling from the direction of Horbury Bridge at the time of the collision.
The driver, an 88-year-old man, was uninjured.
The woman was assessed to have received minor injuries at the time of the collision, but her condition declined in hospital and she sadly passed away in a hospice on Saturday, March 28.
Officers from West Yorkshire Police Major Collision Enquiry Team are now leading the investigation and are appealing for any witnesses to the collision itself or the circumstances leading up to it.
Anyone with information is asked to contact MCET via 101 quoting Operation Panderhouse or reference 13260110641 or online via www.westyorkshire.police.uk/livechat