New mobile speed camera patrols will be hitting the streets of Bradford next month at accident blackspots across the city.

The police patrols will be operating in ten new locations across the area from August 1 as part of a West Yorkshire-wide blitz on speeders.

The West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership is targeting 64 stretches of "killer road" in the county, including 17 new routes.

These include locations in Moore Avenue, Wibsey and Great Horton Road, Great Horton, which have both been the scene of fatal smashes in the last three years.

A 74-year-old pedestrian was knocked down and killed 18 months ago on Moore Avenue on Christmas Eve, 2002.

The decision to place a mobile speed camera along the route has been welcomed by Wibsey Ward Councillor David Green (Lab).

He said: "It is certainly a road that has a problem with speeding traffic and rat-run traffic and is a prime site for these mobile speed cameras which will hopefully discourage people from endangering the lives of residents in the area."

Councillor John Godward (Labour, Great Horton,) welcomed the move to clampd own on speeding motorists in his ward with the siting of a mobile camera on Great Horton Road.

It was the scene of a fatal accident in September, 2001, when a car carrying six people attempted to outrun police in a high speed chase and crashed into railings, killing a 21-year old.

He said: "There is a problem with speeding along Great Horton Road at Horton Bank all the way to Queensbury.

"In the interests of safety I am in favour of these cameras if there is a history of people abusing the speed limits along the roads."

The patrols will move across the 64 locations from week to week.

To qualify for a mobile safety camera in West Yorkshire there has to be at least four fatal or serious injury accidents per kilometre in the last three years and at least eight personal injury accidents per kilometre in the last three years.

Traffic surveys also need to show that at least 20 per cent of drivers are exceeding the speed limit along the routes.

The partnership's chairman Steve Thornton said: "Drivers travelling at excess or inappropriate speeds remain the single biggest killer on the roads of West Yorkshire.

"The patrols are a high visibility warning to encourage motorists to check their speed and if necessary slow down, thereby reducing the risk of causing or being involved in a collision that may have fatal consequences."

West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership publishes the location of mobile patrols a week in advance on its website at www.westyorkshiresafetycameras.co.uk

The T&A reported earlier this month that 21 new fixed speed cameras will also be installed in Bradford by April next year.