A TEENAGER featured as part of our Stop the Danger Drivers campaign has been dealt with in court.

Aaron Kundi was caught on a dashboard-camera coming round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road on Moorhead Lane, Shipley, on June 7 this year.

He can be seen overtaking another vehicle in his white Vauxhall Corsa, narrowly avoiding a motorbike coming in the other direction, and swerving onto a grass verge before being driven off.

The footage was sent to the Telegraph & Argus and posted on our website as part of our campaign calling for an end to poor standards of driving in Bradford. It was also passed on to West Yorkshire Police.

Kundi, 18, of Apperley Road, Apperley Bridge, has pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention and failing to comply with a solid white line. At Bradford and Keighley Magistrates’ Court, he was given six penalty points on his driving licence, fined £90 and ordered to pay £85 court costs and a victim surcharge of £30 for the first charge. He received no separate penalty for driving over the solid white line.

Police said Kundi’s licence would now be shown as provisional and he would probably have to take an extended test as a result of amassing six points in his first two years as a qualified motorist.

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “The fact that this young driver now faces the possibility of having to take an extended test if he wants to drive again should serve as a warning to other newly qualified motorists.

“The rules of the road are there to ensure that people are safe and we will continue to enforce them by bringing people to account for motoring offences and seizing their vehicles where appropriate.”

The van driver whose dash-camera captured the incident said of the sentence: “It is a bit paltry, really. I thought it would have warranted a bit more. I would have thought he would have got some sort of ban - even just a small one.”

He added: “At least it got to court and got dealt with. It shows the value of sending videos in.”

Councillor Hawarun Hussain (Green, Shipley) added: “It is fantastic news that he has been caught and fined and given points on his licence.

"It is great to see that policing is working and great to see that police have been able to use the evidence available to them to bring him to justice. I am disappointed with the size of the fine, but the points might make him think about it in the future, especially when insurance companies see them.”