The number of people injured on Bradford roads has fallen despite an increase in the number of accidents.
New figures, published by the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership - whose head of public affairs is Philip Gwynne - for the first half of 2006 show there has been a slight increase in the number of accidents compared to last year.
Up to the end of June this year there were 853 accidents compared to 830 in the same period of 2005.
But the number of casualties dropped from 1,279 in the first half of 2005 to 1,257 in the first half of 2006.
Geoff Glew, of the Accident Studies Research Team which carried out the study for the casualty reduction partnership, said: "The general trend since 2001 is one of decline and is reflected in all major road user groups."
Meanwhile the Association of Chief Police Officers wants police and Crown Prosecution Service lawyers to make stronger cases against drivers whose legal teams use loopholes in the law to get them off motoring offences.
Meredydd Hughes, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, said that officers would be looking for' motorists who had been unjustly acquitted'.
Police across Britain have voiced frustration that lawyers well-versed in motoring laws are using small-print to win acquittals for people charged with reckless or drink-driving.
ACPO is also introducing a team made up of a lawyer and a former police officer to help prosecute speed camera cases.
It hopes motorists will decide against contesting their speeding charge because if they lose, their costs will include up to £4,000 for the team.
Celebrities have used lawyers such as Nick Freeman, who has been dubbed Mr Loophole. His past clients include Sir Alex Ferguson and David Beckham.
Mr Hughes said there was increasing frustration with lawyers who use legal small-print to help win acquittals for clients.
"There have been a number of cases where people feel that justice has not been done, both in the drink-driving world and in other cases where people have evaded the law having driven cars recklessly and at very high speeds," he said.
"I think my colleagues in the roads policing groups will share my anger when people are unjustly acquitted and I'm sure they'll be looking for those drivers.
"And if they haven't mended their ways, we have an attitude in the police service that we'll see them again sometime."
e-mail: jennifer.sugden@bradford.newsquest.co.uk
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