Appeal After Man Seriously Injured in Assault in Crofton

*Friday, 8 August, 2025*

Detectives in Wakefield are appealing for information after a man was seriously injured in an incident in Crofton earlier today (Friday, 8 August). 

Police received a number of reports from 1:40pm today that a man had been assaulted in Crofton. 

Enquiries are in their early stages, but it is understood there was a collision involving two cars on High Street near to Lo’s Pharmacy, before a man was assaulted by a number of people armed with machetes. 

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