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Nathan Hyde

Driver somehow escapes with minor injuries after dramatic M62 crash

A driver who veered off the M62 and ploughed into some trees escaped the wreckage without suffering any serious injuries.

PC Martin Willis said the car came off the westbound carriageway of the motorway near Castleford and careered into the trees on Wednesday, August 14.

The police officer - known as Motorway Martin - posted photographs of the driver's crumpled vehicle and some shattered trees on Twitter at 1.10am.

He wrote: "This vehicle has left the motorway, gone up an embankment and collided with several quite substantial trees.

"Incredibly the driver has escaped being killed or seriously injured!"

PC Willis, based in Halifax, patrols the M62 through Yorkshire.

The driver did not suffer any serious injuries (@WYP_PCWILLIS)

In 2017 he hit the headlines when he saved a driver trapped in a van teetering on the edge of a motorway bridge by holding it with his bare hands.

He gripped the wheel of the vehicle for 15 minutes as it lay on its side on an icy bridge on the A1 (M) near Bramham and stopped it from plunging to the A64 below.

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