Lorry driver's amazing escape after Dalton crash

Sep 8 2008 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A LORRY driver had an amazing escape in a crash in Dalton.

His 7½-tonne lorry crashed through a wall above a huge embankment at a notorious accident blackspot – with the flood-swollen River Colne at the bottom.

But luckily the vehicle rolled only 30 feet down the banking off Dalton Bank Road before it was stopped by a tree.

The driver, who was trapped for more than an hour, had to be rescued by firefighters, paramedics and teams using specialist equipment to stretcher him out of the vehicle.

The incident happened at the back of the Syngenta plant at 10am on Saturday.

The driver, aged in his late 40s, was driving a wagon for Huddersfield firm Naylor Myers. He is thought to be a local man.