A DRIVER caught doing 25mph over the limit on a "race track" road was warned about their driving just three days before.

Officers from West Yorkshire Police's Roads Policing Unit (RPU) spotted the vehicle on Bradford Road, near Thornbury.

A spokesperson for the force said the driver was seen "speeding towards Leeds" at 65mph in the 40mph zone.

Officers stopped the driver and discovered they had been given a section 59 warning just three days earlier.

Section 59 allows the police to give drivers a warning if they are reported to have used their vehicle in a manner which causes "alarm, distress or annoyance".

If reported to have done so again within a year the police have the right to confiscate the vehicle.

The driver was reported and their vehicle seized.

Bradford Road (A647) is a busy dual carriageway on the boundary between Bradford and Leeds.

Councillor Andrew Carter CBE, Leader of the Leeds Conservative Group, and Councillor Amanda Carter (Con) have been complaining about the road ever since the roundabout was removed at its junction with Woodhall Lane and Galloway Lane.

It was replaced with a traffic light system.

Cllr Andrew Carter claimed back in August last year that the road was being "used as a race track" and added that "it's extremely fortunate there hasn't been a fatality".

Their long-running campaign to install speed cameras on the road was boosted by a new update earlier last month.

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