Chaos on the roads as snow hits hard again

good hour helping out.

Tim said a terrified care worker was stuck in her car and too scared to take her foot off the brake. They helped her into a nearby car park and safety.

Another man, Darren Waite from Lindley, ran to the top of Cowrakes to stop any more traffic coming down and said some of the crashed motorists suffered from whiplash and shock.

One of the most dramatic crashes was caught on camera in Deighton after several cars had crashed into the back of one another ... and then all were hit with force by another car as yet a third vehicle could be seen sliding down the road the wrong way.

Greenhead Lane in Dalton was impassable after a VW car ploughed into a white van. One person was slightly hurt after two crashes caused by snow on Heathy Lane in the Holmfield area of Halifax left one car on its roof.

The main snow really hit Huddersfield hard around 6pm on Saturday and within an hour many roads had become gridlocked or impassable due to sheet ice.

The M62 virtually ground to a halt by 10pm but traffic just managed to keep going although a crash on the westbound carriageway near Junction 26 at Chain Bar left the second and third lanes blocked by a damaged van. All other routes across to Manchester were closed.

At 9.45pm bus company First West Yorkshire announced it was suspending all services due to the severe weather.

Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team were called out by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service to help them get a patient with a broken leg in Marsden to hospital.

The team tweeted: “The snow presented challenging road conditions that necessitated our 4x4 capability.”

On top of all that Huddersfield firefighters had to tackle two car fires.

At 8.30pm a Vauxhall Insignia overheated on Balmoral Avenue after in Crosland Moor after it had been revved in the snow. The blaze was confined to the front of the car.

At midnight on Kaffir Road at Edgerton a Fiat 500 Abarth was found blazing and had been completely destroyed. The fire burned through the handbrake cable, sending the car careering down the road and into a hedge.

Yesterday several Northern trains were cancelled and TransPennine Express trains were up to 15 minutes delayed as they had to run slower due to the snow and ice. Several bus routes had to be changed or shortened to avoid icy roads.

Roads on the hills around Huddersfield – such as Thick Hollins Road between Meltham and Upperthong – remained dangerous well into yesterday afternoon.

Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team also tweeted yesterday lunchtime: “The road from the Ford Inn to Meltham is still heavily drifted and icy.”