New cameras to be installed at Hull 'accident hotspot' junction

New cameras are set to be installed at Holderness Road and Mount Pleasant junction in Hull

New cameras are set to be installed at an "accident hotspot" in Hull to stop drivers going through red traffic lights.

The junction of Holderness Road and Mount Pleasant is consistently one of the worst five in the city for crashes resulting in injuries.

Hull City Council has awarded a contract of £240,448 to technology group Jenoptik UK Ltd.

The firm will install the cameras and maintain them for the next six years.

Safer Roads Humber has provided funding for the new cameras.

Figures from the last five years showed that eight of the 23 collisions at the junction were due to drivers ignoring traffic lights, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

One of the eight accidents caused by drivers disobeying traffic signals was serious. The others were deemed "slight".

'New cameras will save lives'

Councillor Mark Ieronimo, the authority's transport portfolio holder, said discouraging drivers from going through red lights would "save their lives".

He also called the junction an "accident hotspot" and said it would "help to change dangerous driver behaviour" and make the area safer.

Hull City Council said it hoped the cameras would also stop drivers from going through red lights at other junctions across the city.