Community leaders have welcomed plans to install speed cameras on a stretch of road that has become notorious for collisions.

Road safety chiefs have decided to put up four cameras on the A6177 Killinghall Road, which runs through Bradford Moor and Laisterdyke, in north-east Bradford.

The first will be at the junction of Northcote Road, the second at Intake Road, the third between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue and the fourth opposite Killinghall Primary School.

In the past four years, there have been nine fatal or near-fatal collisions and 17 other injuries to road users along the road.

The most recent deaths happened last month when four men were killed when their stolen Subaru Impreza smashed into Killinghall Fisheries.

Councillor Ghazanfer Khaliq (Lab, Bradford Moor) said: “More speed cameras are something we have been lobbying for, so this is very welcome.

“It’s great news for residents on Killinghall Road, particularly those who have young children because a lot of children have to cross that busy road to get to school.

“There is already a speed camera near Killinghall Primary School, but motorists slow down for that one then just speed up again as soon as they get past it.”

Councillor Riaz Ahmed (Lib Dem, Bradford Moor) said: “I welcome this and hopefully it will reduce the fatalities. It’s a very dangerous stretch of road that has been the scene of a lot of accidents in the past.

“It’s a road which is very busy and there are three primary schools along there. It is something I have been aware of since I became a councillor because my friend’s daughter got killed in an accident there and there was a nasty accident with a young schoolchild going under a truck.”

The West Yorkshire Casualty Reduction Partnership has announced that cameras will also be installed on the A656 Pontefract Road, in Wakefield, Huddersfield Road, in Ravensthorpe, and Halifax Road, Todmorden.

Philip Gwynne, spokesman for the partnership, said: “Local authorities have requested cameras at these locations after carefully examining what measures might be introduced to bring down the growing number of crashes and resulting casualties.”