A £150,000 package of road improvements across the Keighley constituency has been approved.

More than £100,000 of the cash will be spent targeting dangerous roads in areas including central Keighley, Ingrow, Riddlesden, Steeton, Addingham and Ilkley.

Keighley Area Committee decided where to spend its Safer Roads budget following research by Bradford Council into the numbers of people killed or injured in previous accidents.

The total roads budget for the Bradford district for the current financial year is £825,000, and has been shared across the five constituencies on the basis of population.

The Keighley constituency, which includes Ilkley, will receive £153,450. Of this, £110,000 will be spent on casualty reduction schemes.

The area committee, made up of Bradford councillors representing local wards, discussed a report containing council officers’ spending recommendations.

Top of the priority list was a £20,000 scheme to improve safety on the B6143 around West Lane and Oakworth Road in Keighley.

A £15,000 scheme on Skipton Road and Keighley Road in Steeton will include a reduced speed limit, electronic speed warning signs and improved traffic signs.

Councillors will spend £30,000 on measures including a footway, traffic measures and possible vehicle-activated speed signs in Ingrow Lane and Ashbourne Road, Keighley.

There will be a reduced speed limit and electronic warning signs in Bradford Road in Riddlesden as part of a £15,000 scheme.

The £43,450 not earmarked for casualty reduction will be spent on traffic management schemes across Keighley, Ilkley and surrounding villages.

Work on the list includes signage and lining improvements on Safe Routes to School, anti-skid surfacing at pedestrian crossings, mobility improvements and traffic regulation orders.

The Safer Road schemes in Keighley tie in with a 15-year transport strategy for West Yorkshire running until 2026.

Bradford Council’s annual roads budget previously covered a range of issues in addition, to casualty reduction, including traffic management, access improvements such as dropped kerbs, disabled people’s parking spaces, public transport infrastructure like bus stops, safer routes to schools, and cycling initiatives.

This year there has been a greater focus on tackling road accidents, with 70 per cent of the budget targeted at reducing deaths and injuries.

Highways officers have analysed previous accident figures, focusing on head-on collisions, junction accidents, collisions with road-side objects, and vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders.