MORE than five motorists were caught speeding by police every day in the Bradford last year, as the hotspot roads around the district have been revealed.

The figures, released by West Yorkshire Police in a Freedom of Information request, revealed 2,037 people were caught speeding by police between November 2019 and November 2020 in the Bradford district.

The data only covers people caught driving over the speed limit physically by police, and does not include those caught by fixed speed cameras.

The figures also revealed the roads where the most drivers have been caught flouting speed limits, with the major arterial roads around the district worst affected.

With 414 speeding offences, the 40mph limited Wakefield Road stretch of the A650, from Dudley Hill roundabout to the junction with Leeds Road, was the worst affected by speeding.

It was followed by the Bingley bypass, which is mainly limited to 50mph with a small stretch at 70mph, where 374 people were caught speeding by police.

The A641 was also a major problem road for speeding. A total of 222 drivers were caught speeding on the Manchester Road section - from the city centre up to Odsal Top - which has a 30mph limit, while on the Huddersfield Road section, from Odsal Top to Wyke, there were 247 speeding offences.

Allerton Road (30mph) was next with 119 drivers caught, followed by Rooley Lane (30mph) with 102.

On the M606, police caught 63 drivers going over the national speed limit.

A spokesperson for West Yorkshire Police said: “West Yorkshire Police continues to work closely with partner agencies in Bradford on driving standards across the District.

“It is important to note the figures relating to speeding offences refer to officer generated offences and this means the results may have been part of proactive enforcement activity and pre-planned traffic operations.

“Police officers may enforce overtly or covertly at any location. We remain committed to casualty prevention and ensuring speed compliance through a combination of enforcement activity as well as pre-planned enforcement operations which are part of our operational strategy designed to address excessive or dangerous speed which remains a significant factor in many collisions and road deaths.

“The West Yorkshire Casualty Prevention Unit deploys speed cameras to identified high risk locations and last year detected in excess of 177,000 speeding offences on the urban and strategic network (motorway and trunk roads) across the West Yorkshire region.

“We continue to work with local authorities to address anti-social and dangerous driver behaviour.

“Lower level offenders may be offered driver offender retraining courses and more significant or repeat offender will be prosecuted at court.

“Operation Steerside is long established partnership approach to dangerous driving in Bradford and they continue to work to proactively tackle illegal use of the roads.

“The loss of any life on our roads is unacceptable and we remain committed to making our roads safer for everyone, preventing collisions and working toward the vision of zero road deaths.

“Last year, West Yorkshire Police launched a dashcam portal which enables to public to upload footage of dangerous driving, driver distraction offences, including using a mobile phone, driving without due care and attention, careless driving and traffic light contraventions.

“This new initiative has really helped the police to work with the public as part of our commitment to preventing deaths and injury and improving driver behaviour.

“This is all about by proactively addressing offending and unsafe driver behaviour on our roads to make the roads of West Yorkshire safer for everyone.

“The scheme is already proving very successful and has resulted in convictions at court.”