Average speed cameras to be installed on ring road

Average speed cameras are to be introduced on one of Leeds' busiest roads.

The cameras, on the inner ring road (A58M), will help control speed and improve road safety, the city council said.

It said the stretch had been identified as a "high risk" location, with police recording one fatal, 14 serious and 43 slight injury collisions in the past five years.

A Leeds City Council spokesperson said: "Leeds has the very bold ambition of having zero road deaths and zero serious injury collisions on its roads by 2040."

The city's first average speed cameras were installed in 2023 on the Stanningley bypass and on the outer ring road.

The spokesperson added: "The speed cameras are being installed as part of a wider strategy which has recently been created by the West Yorkshire Safety Camera Partnership, consisting of the five local authorities across West Yorkshire and West Yorkshire Police.

"The new strategy works to recognise high risk locations, either where speed-related casualties have happened or there is clear evidence of speeding."

The inner ring road is a motorway which is 2.5 miles (4km) long and has a speed limit of 40mph.

The council said of the collisions reported on the inner ring road in the past five years, 26 had speeding recorded as a factor.

It hopes the cameras will reduce both the number and severity of injury collisions on the road, in the same way they have on the Stanningley bypass.

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