Speed camera dodgers in Bradford are being warned they have no way of avoiding being caught -- whatever strategies they attempt.

Driving on the wrong side of the road and surfing between cameras are some of the methods motorists use to avoid being caught on camera.

But such antics are futile as well as dangerous, according to the West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership which monitors all speed cameras.

Spokesman Philip Gwynne said drivers had been swerving to avoid 'ladders' painted on the road, in the mistaken belief that by doing so they could escape being caught.

He said double-sided 'ladders' were being painted on roads at every camera point to remind drivers that cameras cover both sides of the carriageway.

Mr Gwynne said: "Cars are being driven down the wrong side of the road in the face of oncoming traffic.

"Motorists pulling out of the side roads will not be looking out for vehicles coming towards them from the wrong direction, neither will pedestrians crossing the road.

"The possible consequences to the driver and those around them are too awful to contemplate."

Other techniques for avoiding speed cameras included 'surfing' between them, but this was also futile, said Mr Gwynne.

He added: "Drivers who accelerate between cameras and brake as they approach them don't get to their destinations any quicker than if they drove at a steady, legal speed."

Mr Gwynne said Thornton Road, Bradford, was a fine example of speed cameras doing their job. He said in 2000 there were two deaths on the road, four people seriously injured and 18 slightly injured.

In 2001 there were four deaths, 11 seriously injured and 28 slightly injured.

But said Mr Gwynne, in 2002, when warning signs for the cameras went up, there were 11 casualties, none of them serious. And last year saw only two people sustaining slight injuries.