A GIRL of 17 died and five other people were seriously injured in a car crash in West Yorkshire.

The teenager was in a Ford Focus which was in collision with a Renault Laguna on the A58 at Drighlington, near Cleckheaton, on Friday.

Three Leeds men in the Focus, all in their 20s, and a couple in the Laguna, who were in their late 40s, spent the weekend in hospital with serious injuries.

A 29-year-old Leeds man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving over the legal alcohol limit.