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