ONE YEAR on, support continues to grow for this newspaper’s Stop the Danger Drivers campaign which we started in protest at so many incidents of poor, or even reckless driving, which blight the district’s roads.

During the last 12 months we have highlighted some of the worst imaginable cases which have cost innocent lives and left the perpetrators behind bars for their utterly selfish actions, often at high speeds, while behind the wheel.

And our readers have responded in their droves by sending dash cam footage of what can only be described as motoring madness both to us and to West Yorkshire Police.

To their credit and in direct response to our campaign, police in Bradford started a crackdown in February called Operation Steerside which has now resulted in more than 6,000 drivers being stopped and more than 500 illegal vehicles taken off the road.

No-one, though, can afford any complacency that the job is anywhere near done of making our roads safer and ridding the district of its unwanted reputation.

Today, the Stop the Danger Drivers campaign will enter a new stage as Bradford South MP Judith Cummins raises it during a Parliamentary debate on increasing sentencing guidelines for dangerous drivers, which is among our original ten-point charter for legislative change.

To be truly effective deterrents, punishments have, of course, got to fit the crimes.

And those who continue to flout the rules also need to realise that the law-abiding public is no longer prepared to sit in silence and they will be treated like the pariahs they are.

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