TWO PEOPLE were taken to hospital following a crash in Heckmondwike last night, with one of them having to be freed from a car by fire crews.

Emergency services were called to Market Street shortly before 10pm, after a BMW collided with a row of shops.

The crash caused "serious damage" to a pet shop and two people were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, West Yorkshire Police said this morning.

One of them had to be extricated from the car by fire crews, a spokesperson from Cleckheaton Fire Station said.

Two fire engines from Cleckheaton and one each from Dewsbury and Mirfield fire stations were in attendance, as was the ambulance service.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: "Police were called at 9.48pm yesterday to reports of a road traffic collision.

"The incident occurred on Market Street, Heckmondwike when a vehicle was in collision with a business premises.

"The vehicle, a black BMW, had made slight contact with another vehicle, a Peugeot that was turning off Market Street onto Beck Lane prior to the collision.

"The driver and passenger of the BMW were taken to hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

"Enquiries are ongoing."