00:00West Yorkshire Police are supporting Operation Spotlight,
00:03a national campaign coordinated by the National Police Chiefs Council.
00:08The initiative aims to reduce serious injuries and fatalities by tackling
00:12criminal use of the roads and raising awareness of the dangerous behaviours.
00:17Data from the Department for Transport shows around a fifth of all fatal or serious injury
00:21collisions in 2023 involved a young car driver. The data also shows young male car drivers aged
00:2817 to 24 are four times as likely to be killed or seriously injured compared with all car drivers
00:34aged 25 or over. Roads policing officers will be working to educate and enforce safe driving
00:41practices across West Yorkshire's highways conducting high profile patrols and roadside stops.
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