POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a fatal road traffic collision in Castleford.

At 1.38am this morning officers were called to Whitwood Common Lane to a report of a one-vehicle road traffic collision.

Officers attended and a 59-year-old man was found with serious injuries, he was pronounced dead a short while later.

Police would like to speak to anyone who saw the collision or has dashcam footage of it to contact police via the contact us options at www.westyorkshire.police.uk/contactus quoting log 141 of June 3