Carnage at Calderdale crash scene as driver three times over legal limit lucky to be alive

Police officers in Calderdale have described a car crash scene as carnage after they came across the wreckage of a Mercedes.
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Calderdale Response Officers were called to the A58, Rochdale Road, Ripponden.

A Mercedes car had flipped onto its roof and into a ditch at the side of the road.

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Police officers described how the driver was lucky to be alive.

Crash scene on Rochdale Road, Ripponden (Picture West Yorkshire Police)Crash scene on Rochdale Road, Ripponden (Picture West Yorkshire Police)
Crash scene on Rochdale Road, Ripponden (Picture West Yorkshire Police)

A spokesperson for the Calderdale Valleys Neighbourhood Policing Team said: "No sympathy as this driver was three times over the drink drive limit and escaped serious injury or even death.

"One sobering thought though, a biker was just seconds behind this crash and freed the driver from the wreckage.

"A few seconds the other way and the biker would have been wiped out from the reckless actions of this selfish driver."

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