Roads policing officers are appealing for witnesses after an elderly man died after coming off his bike in Altofts on Friday (July 24).

Officers from West Yorkshire Police were called at 11.55am to a report a cyclist on Lock Lane, Altofts, had fallen from his electric assisted pedal cycle.

The cyclist, a man in his 80s, died at the scene.

Officers would like to speak to anyone who saw the events leading up to this incident or the incident itself.

The bicycle is described as a green Trek EAPC and the man was travelling on Lock Lane near to the Aire and Calder Navigation, away from Altofts towards Castleford.

If anyone has any information that could assist in ongoing enquiries into this incident, they are asked to contact the Roads Policing Unit via https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/livechat or by calling 101, quoting log 667 of July 24.