The father of a teenage boy who was killed at an accident blackspot has criticised the siting of speed cameras on the route which he says will not combat the problem.

Fifteen-year-old Amar Ali died when he was struck by a stolen car in hit-and-run accident in White Abbey Road, Manningham, last year.

The route has been chosen for two new speed cameras which have been erected this week.

But Amar's father Riasat says they have been put up in the wrong place and will not stop the speeders.

He said: "I really welcome that they have put the cameras up but they will not solve the problem.

"They have put one at the top of the road on a bend and nobody speeds on there and the other one is at the traffic lights near Westgate.

"You can see this camera from the traffic lights so people will not speed there either. We need cameras in the middle of White Abbey Road by the crossing where my son was killed, that is where people speed.

"Local people know where speed cameras are so they will just speed in between them."

Mr Ali runs two shops along White Abbey Road and says he regularly sees people speeding over the crossing where his son was run down.

Amar died on October 30, last year, after he was hit by a stolen Toyota Corolla which was travelling along the road.

The driver Amir Khan, 19 from Manningham, was jailed for six years at court earlier this month after he admitted dangerous driving and driving without insurance.

Mr Ali said: "I see people speeding past where my son was killed all the time even though we put fresh flowers at the crossing every week. It is very upsetting.

"The teenagers won't learn. They speed like it is a race track. You saw what happened to my son. If someone gets hit by a car they don't have a chance of surviving."

White Abbey Road is one of four routes in Bradford where speed cameras are currently being installed by the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership.

Cameras are not installed and working until warning signs have been erected.

A partnership spokesman said the new cameras would be monitored to see if they were combating speeding on the route.

The others will be sited on Brighouse/Denholme Road in Queensbury, Horton Grange Road and Ingleby Road. Locations for speed cameras are decided by West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership and approved by the Government.

The partnership receives about 600 suggestions for suggested camera locations across West Yorkshire every year.

However before a camera can be erected it has to meet set criteria.

Over a three-year period there has to have been four accidents involving deaths and serious injuries and eight accidents where victims have needed medical treatment.

The partnership also has to be satisfied that speeding is a factor in the accidents and traffic surveys need to show that at least 20 per cent of the traffic using the route is speeding.

The partnership has submitted a bid for speed cameras to be sited in four accident blackspots in the Bradford district in the next financial year.

The plan is to erect four fixed cameras on the A647 at Clayton Heights and four on the B6145 at Greenside. Mobile cameras held by police officers could also be in force on the A65 around Ilkley and on Wrose Road.