FOOTAGE which shows a driver who came the wrong way through a junction in Manningham could have had “potentially devastating consequences”, a road safety charity has said.

The incident of dangerous driving happened in Frizinghall Road at 11am on Tuesday, May 22.

The motorist who captured the incident on his dashcam was driving up Frizinghall Road towards Keighley Road and the castle entrance to Lister Park, driving past the Bradford Grammar School car park.

At the junction, there is a right turn filter lane from Keighley Road onto Frizinghall Road, and Frizinghall Road forks into two lanes at the junction, one to turn left and one to turn right.

The whole junction is managed by traffic lights.

As the driver who witnessed the incident was approaching the junction, the dangerous driver, in a grey Audi saloon can be seen coming down the left turn lane on the wrong side of the road towards oncoming traffic while driving at speed.

To get to the lane, the driver had to cut across oncoming traffic in Keighley Road, and narrowly avoid causing a collision with oncoming cars.

In February 2013, the junction was the scene of a multi-car crash involving five vehicles, that resulted in two people being injured.

The actions of the Audi driver have been condemned by road safety campaigners.

A spokesperson for Brake, the road safety charity, said: “This footage is incredibly concerning, and it is shocking to see such blatant disregard for the rules of the road, which exist to keep us all safe.

“The driver’s dangerous behaviour could’ve had potentially devastating consequences not only for themselves but all other road users.

“Thanks to technology, we now have permanent evidence of this dangerous behaviour, and we hope that the police traces the culprit and makes an example of them.”

Sergeant Cameron Buchan, who has led West Yorkshire Police’s Operation Steerside crackdown on dangerous driving in Bradford since it was started in February 2016, labelled the driving “selfish”.

He said: “It shows selfishness. That selfishness put other drivers at risk.

“Selfishness is what underlines the problem we are having with such driving. It shows a disregard for other people.

“Forcing oncoming cars to take action to avoid a collision is driving without due care and attention, getting towards dangerous driving.

“Drivers are expected to anticipate some hazards, but that doesn’t include someone who has ignored a light rocketing towards you.

“I don’t know what the motivation is. Whatever the argument for it is, no excuse is good enough.

“In their head they have a reasonable excuse for doing that. But there is no excuse and this is part of the reason we are doing what we are doing.”

Operation Steerside was set up on the back of the Telegraph & Argus’ Stop the Danger Drivers campaign, and has snared thousands of motorists across the district for driving offences in the past two years.