A DRIVER who showed a “blatant” disregard for the law by going through a red traffic light can expect a visit from police after being caught on another motorist’s dashboard camera.

The offender was caught on camera squeezing a Volkswagen Golf between a van and a traffic island on Manchester Road, Bradford. It happened at the junction with Mayo Avenue at about 8.20am on January 30.

The footage was sent to West Yorkshire Police and the Telegraph & Argus by a motorist who said he was fed-up with driving standards in Bradford.

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“I really could not believe what I was seeing, but I wasn’t surprised,” said the man, who did not want to be named. “It was an outrageous manoeuvre to save about 60 seconds maximum.”

The 48-year-old engineer added: “ I drive around Bradford and district every day - 30 miles on a quiet day, 80 miles on a busy day. You see this lunacy every day and this one just pushed me over the edge. I have just got fed up with it.

“It is a man driving it. He had just dropped a child off at Dixons, where I dropped my child off. He undertook me on Manchester Road.

“He was not in the right lane so you could see what he was planning to do - which suggests he has done it before.

“The lights also change in the other direction and they had to wait for him.”

The man said the driver was an Asian male aged in his late 30s, and added: “I see that car two or three mornings a week. It goes off up Hutton Road. It is a local car.

“It isn’t flying around on dodgy plates.”

He said that his daughter’s car insurance had halved from £1,200 to £600 because she moved from Bradford to Chester, and added: “My car insurance is up for renewal and only six companies would quote, even though I have 30 years of no claims.

“It is because of idiots like this. It is maddening.”

Sergeant Cameron Buchan, who is leading Operation Steerside, said: “It is a clear and blatant offence of failing to comply with red traffic light. It is two fingers to the law.

“It doesn’t even seem to benefit the driver as they are held in traffic afterwards.

“We have the registration of the vehicle concerned and will be making enquiries to get the driver to explain themselves.”

Last week, Steerside officers caught 144 dangerous drivers on Bradford’s roads, including a disqualified driver who was speeding in a car that had false registration plates.

In the week up to Sunday, police caught 80 speeding drivers, eight using a mobile phone at the wheel, 24 not wearing a seatbelt, ten driving without insurance, and 22 for other road-related offences. Eleven vehicles were seized.

A total of 7,347 drivers have been caught since Steerside started in February last year.

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