TWO drivers have been caught by police travelling at more than 100mph on the Bingley bypass - amid concerns the dual carriageway is being used as a racetrack.

Officers working as part of Operation Steerside - a police crackdown on dangerous drivers in Bradford district - caught the pair doing 115mph and 109mph on a 50mph stretch of the road.

A police spokesman said the cars involved - a Ford Focus and an Audi A3 - were travelling in convoy at the time of the offence, which happened at about 2pm last Sunday.

The drivers, two Keighley men aged 24 and 23, will appear before magistrates to face charges of dangerous driving.

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Councillor David Heseltine (Con, Bingley) said: “They are behaving like complete and utter morons.

“Rather than a slap on the wrist, they ought to confiscate vehicles. A little fine or small ban, I don’t think that works.

“If you actually crushed their pride and joy in front of them and their mates, it would have a high impact on their street cred - if you can call it street cred.

“Take them off to a crushing station and get that on YouTube, rather than namby-pamby around them.

“These are lethal machines and they don’t know what they are dealing with.”

Cllr Mark Shaw (Con, Bingley) added: “I think if they are doing this sort of speed on the bypass, it should be a ban and a jail term. They need to make an example of them.”

Bingley residents have raised concerns that the bypass - only part of which is a 70mph speed limit - is used by some irresponsible drivers to race their cars.

Cllr Heseltine said: “I have seen it myself. Sometimes on an evening and a bit later on at night, there seems to be a thing to go cruising. It is annoying and highly dangerous.”

Sergeant Cameron Buchan, who is leading Steerside, said: “We are widening the area we are going to and listening to what people are saying. Bingley bypass is one of the areas we have been looking at and will continue to look at.”

Sgt Buchan said parts of the bypass had a 50mph-limit because of the bends.

“The speed limit is reduced to a safe level,” he said. “It is for safety, common sense, and keeping people on the road.”