The broken-down lorry had parked up at the side of the road.

Police said the second lorry had tried to avoid the collision but the driver had pulled out too late to overtake and it ran into the other truck. The vehicles were badly damaged during the incident on Monday at 9.45am.

The driver of the second vehicle, a 48-year-old Cleckheaton man, suffered a minor leg injury and the 53-year-old driver of the other vehicle, a Batley man, escaped with minor injuries. The road was kept open to keep traffic flowing but the crash was cordoned off by police. It took more than two hours to remove the vehicles.

Earlier that morning, traffic built up on the motorway after a smash on the westbound carriageway. A car collided with a lorry near junction 25 at Brighouse at 7.10am. Nobody was seriously hurt and the road was cleared by 9am.

l A bus and a Volkswagen Passat collided on the Luden-scheid Link, Brighouse, on Saturday at 3.30pm.

Diesel from the bus spilled on to the road which was blocked for just over an hour.