TRAFFIC light cameras will be installed at a Bradford junction where there has been nine crashes in recent years.

A £39,000 scheme to add red light cameras at the junction of Killinghall Road and Harrogate Road was one of the Safer Road schemes approved for the Bradford East constituency at a meeting on Thursday.

Each of Bradford Council’s five Area Committees, which each covers a constituency, gets a budget of £110,000 a year to spend on schemes to reduce accidents.

The Bradford East Area Committee approved its schemes for the coming year this week.

The red light cameras at the junction will be the most expensive scheme, and a report to members said there had been nine collisions at the site in the past five years.

Other schemes include and £18,000 traffic island at the junction of Leeds Road and Steadman Street – a stretch of road where there has been five crashes in five years, and improved lane lining and direction arrows at Five Lane Ends/ Idle Road – a scheme that will cost £5,000. There have been 10 crashes at that junction in five years.

There will be a lighting upgrade on Joseph Street/Garnett Street costing £8,000 and the rest of the money will be spent on new traffic orders across the constituency, including double yellow lines, mobility access works such as dropped kerbs and creating more blue badge parking spaces.