Girl, 7, left with life-changing injuries after quad bike crash on Boxing Day
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A man and a woman, both aged in their thirties, have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after the crash in Kippax. A child has been left with life-changing injuries after the quad bike she was riding on crashed into a telegraph pole outside a high street pub on Boxing Day.
![[Police pictured at the scene of the quad bike crash]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/14/SEI234344194.jpg)
The bike, a green Honda TRX420, had been travelling away from Leeds Road in the quiet rural town of Kippax, near Leeds, on Thursday at around 10.30pm. A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving after the crash.
![[The Honda quad bike being removed from the scene]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/14/SEI234344191.jpg)
A man and a woman, both aged in their thirties, have been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and are being questioned in custody. The seven-year-old girl was a passenger on the green all-terrain quad when it struck the pole outside the Old Tree Inn pub on the town’s High Street.
![[West Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and CCTV or dashcam footage]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/14/SEI234344124.jpg)
Pictures from the scene show where the wrecked quad bike had smashed into the pole. West Yorkshire Police is appealing for witnesses and CCTV or dashcam footage of the Honda being ridden around Kippax from 10pm on Boxing Day - which is 30 minutes before ambulance crews were called out.
