A MOTORCYCLIST was taken to hospital after he was injured in a crash with a car in Skipton Road, near Beechcliffe roundabout, Keighley, today.

The rider was heading out for a day's ride on his silver Honda when he was in collision with the back of a silver car which had stopped in slow-moving traffic.

An ambulance arrived within five minutes and the middle-aged man, from the Keighley area, was taken to Airedale Hospital for treatment to shoulder and hip injuries.