Our task is to reduce the toll of deaths and serious injuries on our roads.

We do this by installing road safety improvement measures at the worst casualty hotspots. These measures are for all road users and include installation of speed control safety cameras, mobile police camera patrols, and traffic signal cameras.

We are responsible to the Government which, by the year 2010, wants to see;

• 40% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured in road collisions compared to the average for 1994-98;
• 50% reduction in the number of children killed or seriously injured;
• 10% reduction in the slight casualty rate, expressed as the number of people slightly injured per 100 million vehicle kilometres.

We are a team of specialists in road safety, traffic planning, collision prevention and highways engineering, in healthcare, casualty treatment and road accident and emergency work, and in understanding what causes crashes, casualties and fatalities on our roads and how to stop them happening.

We are a partnership of the five metropolitan district councils of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield along with West Yorkshire Police, West Yorkshire Health Authority, West Yorkshire Magistrates' Court Service and the Highways Authority.