A POLICE helicopter was dispatched over Bradford city centre this afternoon to look for a stolen vehicle.

Roads policing officers and an NPAS helicopter attended in Bradford shortly after noon following the sighting of a black BMW X5 which had been reported stolen from an address in Halifax in the early hours of this morning.

The car was sighted on Killinghall Road and then pursued onto Bolton Road and Kings Road.

It eventually crashed into another vehicle on Shipley Airedale Road. The crash was described as minor and no injuries were reported.

The X5 has been recovered and police are still searching for the driver, who fled the car after the crash.