Half of last year’s deaths on the Bradford district’s roads happened in just one constituency, a report has revealed.

While the number of fatalities on roads across the district has almost halved since 2012, the number of deaths in the Bradford East constituency rose from none in 2012 to four in 2016.

One of those deaths was that of 71-year-old Kenneth Parratt, a pedestrian who died after being involved in a collision with a vehicle in Idle Road, Eccleshill, on September 23, 2016. Across the district as a whole, the number has dropped from 15 deaths five years ago to eight last year. The findings are part of an annual report on road safety which will go before the Bradford East Area Committee tomorrow.

The total number of casualties on the district’s roads has been decreasing since the annual reports began in 2011, with a total of 1,611 slight, serious, and fatal casualties in 2016.

In Bradford East, this number fell below 400 for the first time, with 389 casualties, the vast majority of which were slight injuries.

The number of accidents on the roads in the east of the city has also fallen, with 281 last year in Bradford East, and 1,150 district wide, which is also a reduction. The report also provides a breakdown of which road users are most affected, with car occupants being the most frequent casualties with 262 last year.

Pedestrians accounted for 69 of those hurt, motorcyclists for 22, and 19 cyclists.

Councillor Rachel Sunderland (Lib Dem, Bolton and Undercliffe), chairman of Bradford East Area Committee, said she was shocked when she saw that Bradford East accounted for half of all fatalities on the roads in Bradford. She said: “After seeing this figure, I met with the road safety team to discuss what we can do about this. I wanted to delve into why we are still seeing this figure, and to find out the locations of the incidents.

“I think one of the big problems is we have a lot of long, straight and busy main roads that cut through Bradford East, and in 2016 a couple of big crashes which sadly resulted in a number of fatalities.

“The overall number has dropped though, which is a positive, and in Bradford East, and in my ward specifically, there has been a really encouraging rate of engagement by schools in road safety.”

Amjad Malik, who’s 15-year-old son Saliq Malik was killed in a crash in Barkerend in 2014, was not surprised by a rise in fatalities.

He said: “The amount of dangerous driving in Bradford East is always increasing, we had an accident recently where they crashed into a shop. Dangerous driving is an everyday thing, more still needs to be done to tackle it. The number of casualties is probably even higher but in some cases people just don’t report it and sort out the problems themselves.”