A man in his 30s has died after the car he was driving on the wrong side of a motorway hit another vehicle.

The red Suzuki Swift was travelling north along the A1(M) southbound near Ferrybridge when it collided with a silver Hyundai i40 and struck the central reservation at about 6.20pm on Thursday, West Yorkshire police said.

The Suzuki driver sustained fatal injuries, the force said, while the man driving the Hyundai was taken to hospital with injuries “not believed to be life-threatening”.

A West Yorkshire police spokesman said on Friday: “West Yorkshire police received a number of 999 calls at the time of the collision and it is believed other cars may have been involved in more minor collisions with the Swift before the fatal crash occurred. Inquiries will be ongoing today to investigate the circumstances of what took place.”