My name is Mr Steven Scaddan, I am writing this to ask for your support. On the 12th July my wife Tracey Scaddan 35 years old and my Daughter Caitlin 2 years old were involved in a car accident on Leeds road, Dewsbury, on the side heading from shaw cross towards Woodkirk. My family and I have lived in the property for 10 years.

The accident happened as my wife was reversing onto our drive. As mentioned previously we have lived in this house for 10 years and have done this manoeuvre numerous times every day. The accident was caught on dash cam and was evident that the car was speeding. The road where we live with our young family has a 40 mph speed limit but this vehicle was traveling at a ridiculous speed of 80mph which at this speed hit my wife and child who was in the car. My wife was cut out of the vehicle and air lifted to LGI and my daughter was taken to Dewsbury hospital. They are both to this day still recovering and was informed by the police and fire brigade that if we had a smaller car they would both be dead.

Many vehicles speed down Leeds road, Dewsbury between shaw cross and Babes in the wood traffic lights and there has been people killed by speeding motorists. Cars have ended up crashing into people's gardens after losing control, it's just a matter of time before someone else gets killed. As mentioned earlier this is a 40 mph road with speed camera signs, occasionally there is a mobile speed camera that parks up in the dip of the hill close to where I live but it seems this just is not enough to slow vehicles down.

I am making this petition to ask everyone to come together and make this extremely busy road more safer for everyone. I am extremely lucky to have my family still but this could have been a completely different story. I don't want any one else to go though what my family has and still is going through.

Please help us achieve our goal and get permanent speed cameras installed on Leeds road, Dewsbury and lower the speed limit to 30mph as this is a residential area where small children live.