FOUR people were seriously injured when two cars collided on the westbound carriageway of the A63 Selby by-pass near the turn-off to Selby Golf Course.

Yorkshire Air Ambulance airlifted one of the injured people to Leeds General Infirmary. Another person was taken by road ambulance to the same hospital and two more to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

The busy trunk road was completely closed between Thorpe Willoughby and Brayton and is likely to remain closed until after nine o’clock, causing traffic build-ups on the diversion routes.