Speed cameras are to be installed along a stretch of Halifax Road plagued by accidents.

Six cameras will be put up within the next 12 months between Cross Roads and Hermit Hole. And police with mobile speed cameras will be on the road from Monday until the end of the Easter holidays.

Bradford council chiefs approved the permanent cameras after hearing about the high numbers of speeding drivers and casualties.

Most of the designated 1.8 km stretch - between Cross Roads and Dorothy Street - is 40 mph, with the built-up part above Bocking a 30mph zone.

Research by traffic engineers revealed that five out of every six drivers broke the 30mph speed limit, with the average speed being 38mph.

There were 34 casualties in the three years to 2000, including six people either killed or seriously injured.

The cameras will be installed by West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership during this financial year, which finishes next March.

A spokesman says the fixed speed-control safety cameras are in line with the partnership's policy of placing cameras at known crash and casualty hotspots.

He says: "Our aim is to focus attention on the need for drivers to take greater responsibility for their driving standards and adjust their behaviour behind the wheel.

"There is a clear link between speed and personal injury accidents, using independent statistics from the Transport Research Laboratory.

"There is an equally clear link between reducing speed-related accidents and benefits to all road users and the community."

"For example, a high-speed serious injury collision costs your local hospital £100,000 in accident and emergency treatment, intensive care and outpatient care."

The Casualty Reduction Partnership brings together district councils, police, magistrates, health authorities and the Highways Agency.

The partnership's aim is to "preserve the life and limb of all road users while passing on the resulting benefits to the community at large".