West Yorkshire Police has launched an appeal to highlight road safety after 47 people were killed in the first half of the year.
Officers have released a video as part of the Think for a Second campaign, featuring a large large amount of fatal road traffic incidents this year in a bid to prompt people to think about how they are driving and whether or not they should be behind the wheel.
From the start of the year until 30 June there were 43 fatal road traffic collisions (resulting in 47 deaths) in West Yorkshire compared to 27 fatal road traffic collisions (27 deaths) for the same period last year.
Detective Chief Inspector Jim Griffiths is in charge of the Major Collision and Enquiry Team: “One of the hardest jobs a police officer has to do is to visit relatives and tell them a loved one has died.
“It is that much harder for relatives to deal with when that death could have been easily prevented. So if you have to tell a mother that her son has died because a driver was too tired and lost his concentration it makes it that bit more difficult to deal with.
“The point of this video is to ask people to stop and think about their driving or that of their loved ones.”
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