Bradford is blighted with bad driving.

We all know it; we all see it daily – but little ever seems to be done about it.

It’s certainly a problem that is getting worse and not better.

It has nothing to do with the level of prosecutions. So much of this, at best, discourteous, at worst, downright deadly, driving is never witnessed in any official capacity.

There never seems to be a police patrol car or a camera around and those who do it seem to behave badly with impunity – unless, that is, they end up dead.

And there have been numerous examples of that outcome.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus:

In one sense, it’s easy to say the dead or damaged perpetrators received their just rewards. But their crimes are rarely victimless. Too often they end up hitting other cars and injuring their innocent drivers or ploughing into pedestrians who do not have the faintest chance of escaping.

The record of police in tracking down and prosecuting the perpetrators of the worst offences is good. But there are very many dangerous drivers who come within a hair’s breadth of causing misery and mayhem who, to all intents and purposes, simply get away with it.

It has to be stopped and these lethal know-it-alls have to be brought to justice or, at least, re-educated.

So today, the Telegraph & Argus is launching a campaign to highlight the madness that is taking over our roads and to call for more action from the authorities to bring it under control.

Many of those responsible are young drivers: official statistics show more than a fifth of deaths on British roads in 2011 involved drivers aged 17 to 24 and our readers tell us that many of he people they see driving dangerously fall in this age group.

We are setting out a 10-point charter for change that we can take to MPs, the police, the Council, the Home Office and the Government to try to effect real change before the death toll escalates.

We are calling for:

The standard of driver training and testing to be significantly raised

• The minimum age for a full driving licence to be raised to at least 18

• Probationary driver status to be compulsory for the first 12 months after passing a test

• New drivers to be forced to drive only speed limited cars with a maximum engine size for a fixed period or until they reach the age of 25

• Police to set up a bad-driving hotline to deal with public complaints

• Increased use of CCTV on dangerous roads identified by the public as regular routes for speeding or dangerous drivers

• Drivers with no insurance to face a mandatory driving ban of at least 12 months

• A halt to any further cuts to traffic police numbers

• Stronger sentences for anyone convicted of dangerous driving

• Mandatory re-education and training programmes for any driver convicted of careless or dangerous driving Today, we highlight some of the incredibly dangerous and downright idiotic examples of poor driving that have been caught on camera in the Bradford district.

And we plan to continue focussing on the irresponsible and reckless elements that make our roads so hazardous as part of our Stop The Danger Drivers campaign. Click here to see shocking video footage of incidents on Bradford's roads.

We will be talking to those whose lives have been devastated by the actions of these menaces and those who have to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of their behaviour.

We will also be analysing and examining the figures and looking at where the problem areas are in the city.

If you have any issues you feel we should be raising, or any evidence of the type of motoring madness we are highlighting, then please get in touch with our Newsdesk (e-mail: newsdesk@telegraphandargus.co.uk) For too long, people have been left impotently fuming about the poor standard of driving on our district’s roads.

We want to see something done to change people’s behaviour and to reduce the risk to all of us of becoming involved in a traffic incident.

It is time the decent drivers of the district – and that is the vast majority – had their voices heard, and we plan to speak up on their behalf.

Something needs to be done to stop the danger drivers blighting our roads. Hopefully, those in authority will heed the message.