Drivers beware! Eight speed cameras on a one-mile stretch of road have been switched on.

The cameras in Leeds Road, Shipley, are now working, although they were put on a stretch of the road between Briggate and Cote Farm Lane last October.

No crashes have happened there since.

Six people were involved in serious accidents on the section of the A657 in 2002 before the cameras were installed.

Four cameras were installed on each side of the busy where there have been 87 accidents in the past four years.

Signs warning drivers that the limit is 30mph, have also been installed.

The cameras were due to be operational by February, but there was a delay in work by NPower (formerly Yorkshire Electricity), the firm contracted to turn them on.

The programme was carried out with £140,000 from Bradford Council's roads improvement scheme, backed by West Yorkshire Police, the Highways Agency, West Yorkshire Health Authority and the Magistrates' Court Service.

Speeders risk a fixed penalty of £60 and three points on their licence. Those caught by all four cameras will be prosecuted for the highest speed.

A spokesman for the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership said: "The cameras are now live. The cameras have been commissioned and are being handed over to the care of the police who will manage their use."

Plans are being discussed to install cameras on Leeds Road in Thackley later this year.

High-visibility cameras, housed in yellow boxes on top of grey pillars, have also been installed at some of the district's other accident blackspots, including near Thornton Grammar School, in Thornton Road, where five people, including a boy aged two, died in accidents in 2001.

Six more will go on Cottingley Cliffe Road, between Cottingley Moor Road and Thorn Lane, where 22 people were involved in accidents last year.

The cameras will be installed on either side of the road, which has seen 93 casualties in the past four years, and are planned to be operational in the next couple of months.

Residents campaigned for traffic-calming measures because of fears of an accident outside Cottingley Village Primary, which is on the corner of Cottingley Cliffe Road and Cottingley Moor Road.

Windhill and West Royd residents have raised concerns that many drivers were now using roads on housing estates close to Leeds Road as rat-runs to beat the cameras and the queues of traffic at peak times.