Britain's most dangerous spots to get behind the wheel have been unveiled - with the worst having an appalling number of driving offences. Bradford has been dubbed the capital of dangerous drivers, while three in the top five are all in the same county. The West Yorkshire city has a record of 247.5 dangerous driving offences per 100,000 people, the equivalent of one dangerous driving crime for every 420 people.
In the three years up to the end of June last year, officers in the city recorded 1,039 dangerous driving offences - 39 of which resulted in injuries or death. Only in neighbouring Leeds were more dangerous drivers stopped in this time, with 1,096 reports. The figures tally with separate figures released by the DVLA.
Second to that, the four postcode areas with the country's highest number of drivers with points on their licence were all in Bradford. DVLA data showed that one in 20 drivers (5%) had at least six points on their licence in the BD3, BD1, BD8, and BD9 areas of Bradford.
In January 2023, 18-year-old Amber Deakin was killed when the Vauxhall Vectra she was travelling in crashed on a busy road in Bradford, with driver Jordan Spalding later pleading guilty to causing her death. That same month, 27-year-old mum Justyna Hulboj and her baby, Lena Czepczor, were both killed when a dangerous driver hit them as they walked along a pavement to nursery in Leeds.
