POLICE have shut Otley Road near Dick Hudson's pub in High Eldwick after a serious collision involving a soft-top car.

Full details are yet to emerge of the incident which happened just after 4pm when emergency services were called to a car having left the remote road and ending up in trees nearby.

A man, removed from the car by fire crews from Shipley and Bingley, was believed to have been alone.

Police are now investigating.