18-Year-Old Boy Found Dead Beside 'Partially Submerged' Car at Sewage Plant, 2 People Arrested: Police

Mar. 15, 2025

Wheldale Sewage Works in West Yorkshire, England.Photo:Google Maps

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A teenager has died after the car he was traveling in crashed into a sewage plant.

The body of the 18-year-old boy was found “a few yards away” from a Volkswagen Golf discovered “partly submerged” at the water treatment facility in Castleford, England, on Sunday, Jan. 12, West Yorkshire Police stated in arelease.

A man and a woman, both aged 21, were also found inside the vehicle and were transported to the hospital for further treatment, the statement added.

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“At 6.19 a.m. (Sunday), police received a report of a vehicle with persons inside which had left Wheldon Road and gone into a ditch,” police said in the release. “Emergency services attended the location and found that the vehicle, a white Volkswagen Golf, had entered a water treatment facility and was partly submerged in a pit of water.”

The water treatment facility has been identified as the Wheldale Sewage Works, according to U.K. newspapersThe TelegraphandMetro.

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PEOPLE has reached out to the West Yorkshire Police for further information.

source: people.com