HIGH-performance cars and quad bikes are the biggest road safety problems in Bradford East, say councillors.

Members of the council’s Bradford East Area Committee received an annual update on road safety at their latest meeting.

Councillors told the meeting that drivers of high-performance cars and quad bike riders were causing problems and were responsible for accidents.

They said they would discuss the use of such vehicles in Bradford East with West Yorkshire Police.

Councillor Brendan Stubbs (Lib Dem, Eccleshill) said: “The main problems we have at the moment on our roads are high-powered cars and quad bikes. They just don’t care. They are causing accidents.”

Councillor David Ward (Lib Dem, Bolton and Undercliffe) said: “Every single day we see one, two or three examples of atrocious driving. Films of this outrageous behaviour are being sent to the police.”

Committee chairman Rachel Sunderland (Lib Dem, Bolton and Undercliffe) added: “This is a huge problem in Bradford East. It has been a huge problem for a while.

“There are drivers of high-powered cars that aren’t following the rules of the road.”

Councillors also lent their support to the Telegraph & Argus Stop the Danger Drivers campaign.

The committee studied a Bradford East road safety report compiled using road traffic collision records from West Yorkshire Police.

It showed the total number of casualties for 2015 was 466, up from 455 in 2014.

The number of fatalities on the area’s roads increased from two in 2014 to three last year, although the number of people seriously injured fell from 55 in 2014 to 49 last year.

The number of slight injuries rose from 398 in 2014 to 414 in 2015, while the number of pedestrian casualties rose from 59 in 2014 to 99 in 2015. The number of people injured while travelling in cars decreased from 324 in 2014 to 288, and the number of cyclists hurt in collisions increased from 21 in 2014 to 31 last year.

Across the district as a whole, the number of casualties was down from 1,752 in 2014 to 1,685 last year, with fatalities down from 15 to seven.

The number of serious injuries fell from 190 in 2014 to 181 in 2015, with slight injuries down from 1,547 to 1,497.