A man died after a car was in collision with an articulated lorry in Bradford yesterday.

The 18-year-old was fatally injured when the white Toyota Corolla he was driving veered into a stationary HGV after pulling out of a side road into Bowling Back Lane, Laisterdyke, at about 1.30pm.

Four other men in the car, all thought to be in their 20s, were taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary with minor injuries.

Paramedics treated the driver at the scene before he was taken by ambulance to BRI, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police investigating the cause of the accident arrested three of the occupants of the car, who have now been released on police bail pending further inquiries.

A spokesman for Bradford South Police said: "They have been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving."

The lorry driver is understood not to have been injured. The road was closed for several hours.

Station officer John Blyth said three of the people in the car had got out and were "walking wounded" when crews arrived. He said: "A nurse who had been passing by had placed the front seat passenger on the back seat. He was lapsing in and out of consciousness, was in deep shock and possibly had head injuries.

"The driver was being treated in the car by paramedics. Then they said they wanted him out as quickly as possible because he had gone into cardiac arrest. The paramedics put him in the ambulance, began resuscitation attempts and took him to hospital."

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Ambulance Service said four crews and an immediate care doctor had attended the accident. They had taken five people to BRI, four with minor injuries. The fifth was dead on arrival.