OPERATION Steerside has been a remarkable success. Today, we can report that more than 5,000 motorists have been stopped by police who are mounting a crackdown on dangerous drivers in the Bradford district, in response to the Telegraph & Argus Stop the Danger Drivers Campaign and the public’s reaction to it.

And police have also received a great deal of help from the public who have been providing evidence, some of it from dash cams, of incidents of law-breaking on our highways.

The police deserve a great deal of credit for their commitment to the operation as do those citizens who have assisted them. People have also sent footage to the T&A, which we have featured in the paper and online to raise awareness of some of the appallingly bad driving in Bradford.

Sadly, it’s a problem that is not going to be solved overnight but Operation Steerside is having a positive impact in taking danger drivers off the road.

And each time a dangerous driver is caught, the chance of a family suffering in the way Mary Byrne’s does is reduced a little.

Mrs Byrne was the fatal victim of a speeding driver in 2013 and today her daughter has backed our campaign and pleaded with people to think when they get behind the wheel.

Sarah Harrison does not want other innocent people to ‘become a newspaper headline’ because young drivers are joining a growing trend by driving high-powered cars they simply cannot control.

Operation Steerside won’t make the issue of bad driving go away for good but it definitely has a big impact. Long may it continue.