TWO bikers were killed in a moorland horror crash.
They died as their high-powered bikes slammed into the side of a lorry on Manchester Road above Marsden at 3.35pm yesterday.
The first firefighters at the scene tried desperately to save the life of one of the motorcyclists, but a doctor declared both dead at the scene.
The tragedy is thought to have happened when the lorry, loaded with crushed limestone, had pulled into the lower entrance of the roadside Motorman's Cafe and then came back out of the top entrance to turn right and go back into Marsden.
The bikes came round a sweeping left-hand bend and hit it.
Cafe owner Jean Hall was just saying goodbye to relatives outside the cafe when the tragedy happened.
She said: "I just heard one almighty bang.
"The bikes were going towards Oldham and the lorry had turned around to go back to Marsden when the bikes just went straight into it."
The dead men have not yet been named, but they do come from Huddersfield.
One is aged 51 and the other is 24.
The older man was riding a Honda and the younger man was on a Kawasaki.
Both bikes are blue and the pair are thought to have come from Huddersfield town centre.
Pc Peter Doyle, of Huddersfield traffic police, said the wanted anyone who saw the bikes on Manchester Road, or the accident itself, to come forward.
The first emergency service team on the scene was an operational support unit from Pontefract fire station, which had been doing some training at Marsden fire station. They had to free one man from under the lorry. The other victim was in the road.
Anyone with information should phone Pc Richard Hyde or Pc Dave Briggs on 01484 436847.
