A new online map pinpoints the date and location of more than 240 road deaths in the district in the last ten years, allowing residents to find hotspots and the areas where most fatal accidents occur.

But a principal highways engineer for Bradford Council, tasked with looking after road safety for the district, told the Telegraph & Argus that the number of fatal accidents in the district is falling.

Last year saw ten people killed on the district’s roads, the lowest number ever recorded.

Simon D’Vali, a member of the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership and principal highways engineer for Shipley and Bradford East, said this could have been down to a number of factors.

The 208 serious injury and fatal accidents in 2010 were also the lowest ever.

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