BRADFORD Drivers - Police Interceptor Tells All.

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[@zulu1184]

"Do people not take driving tests any more in the Bradford area" Well, their cousin takes loads.....

[@SamFBM]

cousin got the licence the whole family knows how to drive suddenly. hey not our fault they all look the same

[@timothydraper6626]

@@SamFBMDog whistle racism.

[@davekennedy6315]

@@SamFBM either that or they have a relative in the testing station that will pass for a fee or family.

[@iflewoverthecukoosnest7016]

Driving is terrible in Bradford, Bolton, Blackburn, Leicester, Birmingham, Luton, . Im not sure why. There will be a common denominator there somewhere but im buggered if I can work out what it is...

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

Remember, it's racist to spot patterns

[@timothydraper6626]

`@@SpareSomeChange8080 It's only racist to put negative patterns down to race.

[@gashscumkar6909]

Its almost as if theres a pattern?

[@warren6815]

Had the misfortune of having to drive through Bradford a couple of weeks ago. The standard of driving was actually disgusting. Followed a Toyota Prius quite literally fully loaded, two kids on the passenger seat, drivers wife sat in the back holding a very small baby and another three kids next to her, one of which was standing up looking out of the back window. Didn't have to witness it for too long to be fair, it drove through a red light and nearly got side swiped by a speeding Golf R. To further add to the misfortune I had to pay £9 because of the Clean Air Zone!

[@melonycrumpet]

It’s ridiculous in Bradford, even worse since the disruption caused by city of culture awarded. I’ve just had to pay £200 fine for my husband who drove through clean air zone. I deal with all of our post but due to serious illness I became overwhelmed with things and somehow this mail became mixed up with other things . The annoying thing is my husband was knocked down in a hit and run last summer and was badly injured…. Nothing was done about this though!

[@DC3Refom]

the city of shitole and chaos more like

[@JH77DAFOOL]

Brum worde

[@stumps8672]

Drove through Bradford once, that was enough, thought I’d left the UK and hadn’t noticed.

[@timothydraper6626]

Too many brown people for your liking? Dog whistle racism.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Same in Ardwick and Longsight in Manchester

[@czortson24]

Believe me, it's not limited to Bradford. Since the easing of COVID restrictions, driving standards have been massively reduced.

[@mariagunnarsQ17]

I too have noticed this. I communte 35 minutes each way daily and I see a minimum of 2 drivers breaking the law in some way. I really should make my own youtube channel with the dash cam footage lol

[@BMWMike]

Bradford born and bred and this is so true. They say if you can drive in Bradford you can drive anywhere. Recently went to holiday to California and drove through LA during rush hour. It was a doddle.

[@orbytl2799]

would imagine driving through bradford is a similar experience to driving through Karachi

[@sloeginandsleep1170]

This! Spent 10 years from 17 to 27 year old driving in Bradford. Compared to that, nothing else has ever been a stress! Driven in LA in rush hour, drove through Paris, even drove in India and Pakistan with no issue whatsoever, compared to Bradford it was a cakewalk!

[@tonystrange7224]

😂😂😂😂 absolutely nailed the state of the Bradford drivers. And truth be told it is 99% Asian drivers that are absolute 🛎️ ends on our roads. I can hear them every night racing up the Bingley bypass.

[@Strider9655]

Birmingham is the same, racing around the ring road in stolen AMGs, drifting like they're on a Saudi highway, cousin handing out the window changing a wheel whilst driving along at 80mph on two wheels, etc etc etc.

[@Warriorn977]

I'm Asian and I agree.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

Ben, I went to Lahore in Pakistan last year and witnessed the driving there. Chaotic is an understatement. Lanes are ignored, motor bikes carry up to six people and then you've got tuk tuks, overloaded trucks and the odd donkey and cart. So, I think the way people drive in places like Bradford, Bolton, Blackburn, Burnley is definitely a cultural thing. Hope you're enjoying your retirement!

[@kilner79]

lahore is in bradford now also

[@zaink7037]

I think your spot on here Jane. Never been to my country but would assume those migrating to this country bring over their bad driving standards. Where I live we're seeing more of a particular eastern european migrants coming over and although some cant drive with no consideration or respect they have little to no respect or consideration to people. Its like or is that theres no manners where they came from. Should see the driving standards too in East London. Have family around there and dread driving down there. See young guys driving recklessly in high performance cars which makes me wonder how a wit like them afforded it unless its ill gotten gains or a friend or relatives car. One good thing is the met police have a online form to reporting bad drivers. Have had quite a few reports getting action taken on especially bad drivers I reported in East London.

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

@@zaink7037 The crazy thing is that we didn't see any accidents! I was in PK two weeks and saw one near miss between two motorbikes.

[@DC3Refom]

​@@zaink7037Theres a better solution do not let foreigners drive on our roads with a foreign licence from countries where the test and driving standard is diabolical . Mandatory uk lessons and driving test i think would make a good bit of difference

[@enkisdaughter4795]

@@DC3RefomBut then there’s the issue of people getting someone else to take the test for them and, within certain communities, that’s a huge problem. A few years ago a man of a certain ethnicity was caught trying to take a driving test for another man. The Driving Examiner who should have been conducting the test had called in sick and another Examiner was allocated. The second Examiner called the police when he saw the candidate, as the same man had sat (and passed) the same test the day before at a different Examination Centre, using a different name. When the police raided his property, they found a spreadsheet on his computer, with a list of names, addresses and the Examination Centre their test was being held at. He had the spreadsheet split into months and years - so he’d been doing this for a while. He was charging £500 per test and, so far in the year he was arrested, had sat over 500 tests - for him it was a business.

[@joelharris6588]

I fit high value vehicle trackers in Bradford and it still amazes me when you have a sub £300,000 car in the run down areas of Bradford. BD3 and BD8 are a favourite. The price of insurance is extortionate in the BD postcodes. But its keeping me busy with the black box fitting as well😂

[@brendanfisher2528]

I live in bradford and believe me. All rules of the road do not apply. Red lights don't mean stop, kids don't have to be strapped in. Left and right hand side of the road mean nothing.. speed limit is a suggestion, insurance is optional, wearing a helmet is at your own discretion..

[@aviamonix]

Love your videos Ben, keep em coming. Interesting, great advice, and really helps my mental health. ❤

[@RC3010]

Drove through Bradford for the first time the other night, around 1700. I've never seen driving like it 😅 utterly wild

[@jiggely_spears]

1700? In a 30 limit - that's taking it too far

[@juliebaxter3564]

@@jiggely_spears it is 5pm for goodness sake 1700 hrs. I've driven through Bradford at that time and it's becoming a free for all. Highway code goes out the roof if they have ever read the Highway code. The inner ring road is hell at this time. You need nerves of steel. I relax once I have got to Horton Bank Top towards Queensbury.

[@gavinbryant9699]

the real truth is when certain communities take driving test they ask for a certain language speaker which will automatically give them a pass for a small payment it's been going on for years. I even worked in said community and they told me how its done.

[@TheXasasin1]

Funny that because interpretors have not been allowed for years.

[@PistolStar47.]

As an Asian. Thank you Ben for highlighting this. Action by Bradford MPs need to be taken with communities. I have a £90,000 car and dont like driving in Bradford. Unfortunately it was damaged at the Cinema Car Park. Youve done step 1. So whats step 2?

[@davekennedy6315]

sorry to hear that! I used to terrified of leaving my car parked back in the 90s. I LOVED my car (Astra GTE 16v) it wasnt worth a fortune (but it was to me at the time as it was my first decent car) but i was scared it would be damaged but also those cars were VERY easy to steal. So i always feared i`d return to my car either smashed up (and no way of claiming on anothers insurance!) or just an empty parking bay with my poor car being thrashed and trashed round some housing estate by some Muppet joyrider! I can`t imagine how on edge i`d be with a car like yours? What have you got? BMW M3/M4?

[@PistolStar47.]

@davekennedy6315 thank God I have a tank. Think Abrams or Challenger. Its called a Volvo XC90 T8 400BHP. If any git in a M3 or M4 so much as sneezes at it will cut through their car like knife through butter.

[@sloeginandsleep1170]

​@@PistolStar47.Ain't that the truth. I consider myself to be lucky to drive a tank too (Audi SQ7) and I've noticed that the grade A f**knugget incompetent drivers tend to give it a wide berth. Compared to when I used to have my M5, when people used to treat it as if it was a bumper car. There needs to be action taken against the degree of crap driving that is on the roads, I felt safer driving in Paris in rush hour which is a infamously crashy place and in Pakistan last year, than I do driving in Bradford. It's ridiculous.

[@PistolStar47.]

@sloeginandsleep1170 I think dashcams and more cameras autonomously on cars is the way forward. That way in an idiot hits you or behaves bad to other drivers there's always video evidence which can be used for either police or insurers. When the next gen car reverse / 360 / front / side cameras do auto-record innocent drivers in Bradford are onto a winner.

[@MATDMixes]

It is always a good day when ben uploads!

[@hollyshaw1984]

I went to uni in Bradford. I will never go to Bradford again if I can help it. I bought a cheap car to use in Bradford and left my nice car at home! It’s horrific!

[@coolkid05]

We all know who this is in Bradford. I bet the driving in Luton is the same - if you catch my drift.

[@David8n]

I've driven all over the country, and a huge number of countries abroad. Last year I drove into Bradford for the first time. I was staggered; I'd never experienced anything like it. It was like Whacky Races. I promised myself that I'd never go back. Now that I've done the media museum there's literally no reason.

[@williamfence566]

Night HGV driver with regular runs in bradford and surrounding area ( including the airevalley road race track ) . Red lights are just pretty colours and undertaking a slow HGV on the pavement is mandatory. Private hire vehicles are mainly driven by person either having had a lobotomy or so far gone are on the waiting list. Just my thoughts and experiences.

[@robertallcock882]

Nearly got wiped out by a taxi on a roundabout in Bradford...he started kicking off as if it was our fault he decided to start driving into our lane directly parallel to us 😂

[@kevinjordan9855]

Noticed you did not say who the main culprits are

[@sheffield8184]

Because he would get in trouble but we all know who it is

[@davidlumb1882]

Its because most of um past their test in new Delhi and that's the norm there 😐

[@kevinjordan9855]

@@davidlumb1882new delhi is in India ?

[@davidlumb1882]

@@kevinjordan9855 exactly

[@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000]

​@@davidlumb1882more likely islamabad surely?

[@MrRowntree86]

You forgot to say "innit blud" 17 million times... and don't forget the rs3 is your brothers/sisters/aunts/uncles car but you have it on traders policy from kuts&fadeds barbers that your friend owns 😂

[@adamkay135]

The thing is, police are scared to police any motoring offence’s In Bradford because they don’t wanna be called racist. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@khalidacosta7133]

Why would white police officer giving a ticket to a white motorist be called racist? Or a brown police officer to a brown driver? Adam... what a wonderful British name, that came from the Arabian peninsula. Maybe it's you that is racist? 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

[@RICHARD10195]

Not just Bradford

[@disaffectedmale]

Same reason you'll never see a parking warden anywhere near a mosque on Fridays when the usual suspects are double parked, parked on restrictions or obnoxiously on the pavement.

[@adamkay135]

@@disaffectedmale exactly

[@asifasad4880]

​@@disaffectedmalesame thing with football matches certain people like to park anywhere they want then go to the local pub and drink drive home whilst the police turn a blind eye.

[@Cathal-OBoyle]

Love the channel and Ben!!! So insightful… my only thing and this is probably nit picky but hopefully constructive!! The big microphone feels like a barrier between us and him… the laptop somewhat too! I loved the more open and approachable feel as if the only thing between us is our screen. Like I said it’s small but enjoy the content!!!!

[@reeley]

i live in Bradford. Driving here is the worst I have ever seen. Red lights are ignored, people ignore queues at lights and drive against oncoming traffic and get to the lights on the wrong side of the road and just cut through. Yellow boxes? Ignored. Double parking to get into a shop, happens all down the street. Police? Drive past and just ignore it. Is it because over 80% of the drivers and 100% of the bad drivers appear to be a different ethnicity and the police are afraid to do something? It scares me.

[@chrisf9377]

Same in Slough. Also not indicating, not using mirrors, driving really slowly, parking really badly, lots of street furniture damaged. We've always suspected that some people are able to get a license without taking the test. Because I don't believe that a large number of people passed their test by driving properly and then they all intentionally chose to drive like idiots.

[@Rhiannon-Amber]

Bradford is diabolical. I’ve lived here 7 years. Everyone drives with their fog lights or full beams on. BD3-9 are utterly terrible. One of my younger friends is doing his lessons. And he told me his driving instructor told him to drive on the wrong side of the road to pass parked cars. 😒😒😒😒 Why is the Institute of Advanced Motoring test not the standard for everyone? I know some Scandinavian countries have tests that require you to be able to handle a skid and control a drift, high speed slaloms and all kinds of advanced driving manoeuvres. I wish this was the case in the U.K. if everyone had a free retest so many would fail.

[@patrickmooney5035]

Ive not driven in Bradford for about a decade. I always loved driving in Bradford. It used to be much better than Leeds, Wakefield, Dewsbury. Im not saying anybody drove "properly" but I always found it relaxing and safe and quite charming / entertaining to be honest.

[@wellybobs4403]

🎉😊 nice to see you again

[@conor98]

You do see some pretty bad driving in Bradford, however let’s be honest it’s not much better in Leeds, Manchester and other large cities in the north. People complain about the driving in Bradford more as it’s easy pickings.

[@LazieJane]

Bradford taxi driver told me people go to Dubai and do a driving test in a car park there .

[@madhatter8253]

There’s a common denominator with the drivers

[@timothydraper6626]

Do tell

[@jonnehhhh]

I just passed my test in Bradford - feel like I’m well prepared for idiot drivers now that’s for sure. Truth is police don’t do anything, half the people on the roads won’t have even passed their test the others only learn how to pass their test and not how to drive.

[@jaysee2213]

My mother-in-law insists on taking my daughter to various events in Bradford. I really wish she wouldn't, i hate her going there, Keighley is bad enough, don't need to up the ante!

[@OldQueer]

John "Wheels" Smith was a diplomatic choice of name for a poor Bradford driver

[@matthewsnowdenshunterguy3352]

Hey up Ben. Driving instructor here from the Keighley/Bradford/Halifax areas. Standard of driving in Bradford is nothing short of shocking, u think you've seen it all, until u go out the day after and see something else! For the ones who do pass a test successfully, its easy, u learn for approx 40 hours, show a random examiner what they need to see for 40 minutes, then ur free as a bird. They pass and its like one big race track. I do think it could be considered that new drivers have to be tested again within the first year of driving....? For ones who dont pass a test successfully, thats exactly it, they just don't bother. No license, no insurance, but I'll drive anyway. Lose lose situation. Will never improve. Bradford is Bradford and forever will be this way unfortunately. I dont test at the Bradford test centres anymore, just not worth the hassle of being in the area

[@steve00alt70]

Do you think that the drivers that have done their driving tests in the 20th century need to rerake their driving tests?

[@matthewsnowdenshunterguy3352]

@@steve00alt70 its a difficult situation aint it..... ones who learnt to drive back in day with a horse and cart probably could do with some sort of skills upgrade as time moves on. Roads were quieter then, cars were simpler, driving test was easier, roads werent as advanced with signs, markings, systems etc. All down to the individual at the end of the day, u see some of the older generation really struggle to drive on todays roads, weather thats cos they havent evolved with time or cos their mind aint upto the task anymore, could be either. But then the other half are fully competent, no problemo

[@SiRhodesDriverTraining]

I’m the same with Bolton, I try to avoid teaching round there. The only time I will go is if someone mistakenly books a test there, the standards of driving are awful.

[@RICHARD10195]

I think everyone should be re-tested every 5 years, the police have to be re-tested on driving every 5 years. Just keeps peoples standards up and would be easier to identify the people who don’t declare possible dangerous medical conditions.

[@DC3Refom]

a certain ethnicity are big part of the problem there

[@Hugh_Parker]

Remember that the "Bradford wave" lets you out of any junction and gives you priority! Having to drive around Bradford for work I see some awful driving !

[@AnInterestedObserver]

Is it something to do with the demographics? Just look at the road death statistics in India, Islamic countries and Africa and it becomes clear where the problem lies.

[@DC3Refom]

Yes it is

[@bjj_beard]

India is not even an Islamic country!

[@AnInterestedObserver]

@@bjj_beard I didn't say that India was an Islamic country. Read again what I wrote and this time pay attention to the punctuation.

[@bjj_beard]

@@AnInterestedObserver It's difficult to tell what you wrote now because you're comment is edited. You also neglected to include South America in your list which says something.

[@AnInterestedObserver]

@@bjj_beard I edited my comment at the time that I wrote it, 10 months ago. Your comment was made 11hours ago. Your reference to you not understanding what I wrote being because I edited it is completely incorrect. I don't know why you want to add on South America, I've not done any research in that area so I can neither agree nor disagree, but I will find time to look into the data.

[@ResevoirGod]

It’s a cultural issue really

[@Strider9655]

No it's not, the issue is the govt allowed people to migrate to the UK, who don't speak English and have no UK driving licence, then failing to invest in properly integrating these people into British culture/etc, because all they want is lots of cheap labour for their crony business owners.

[@TheXasasin1]

They have a valid licence so its a police issue

[@ResevoirGod]

@@Strider9655 That has literally nothing to do with what I said you clown. You really think every “certi driver “ in Bradford wasn’t born here and doesn’t have a license? 😂😂

[@jasonbored8319]

Its the rap music

[@davekennedy6315]

Being in Bradford i can guess at why there appears to be this issue. My guess would be Asian instructors either being paid off to pass literally anyone or them doing it for their HUGE extended family (i was gonna say families but then i remembered they are usually ALL related even BEFORE marriage, hence the high levels of babies born with mental or physical disabilities due to inbreeding)

[@famer867]

you videos are so funnny

[@DW_Do2]

Ben this reminded me of Bob Newhart - Driving Instructor. You've got to listen to it!

[@joebird2334]

Sounds like Sparkhill / Sparkbrook in Birmingham 😂

[@Alt33946]

I drive a bus through there everyday… unbelievable place… I wonder why I never see traffic wardens there but see em everyday in kings Heath 🤔

[@CovidConQuitTheCensorship]

😆 Awesome video Ben. Are you sure you weren't in Perth Western Australia? That's how they drive here 😂

[@redtela]

19years ago you started... I think that was the year that we went to the ice rink in Bradford. We got the bus from Huddersfield. I think that says everything. Chances are, you know my step brother, was a paramedic based around Leeds back then.

[@TehHaffsTuts]

Go on Benny boy! 🙌🏻

[@garysunter1784]

Lived in Bradford all my life and been driving here for 50 years. It is an appalling place to drive ( and live ) . As in other comments, we, the sensible drivers are having to pay extortionate insurance premiums because of the vast amount of 'dickhead' drivers in this city. The punishments need to be a lot more severe to deal with this ever increasing bad driving epidemic here.

[@juliebaxter3564]

Sadly the Police are doing nothing about this as they are afraid of being racist. It's been going on far too long now. The amount of times my car has been pranged in Bradford has cost me thousands when I have not been in my car when parked.

[@Geoff09]

I’m doing my lessons and tests soon, looks so easy now I’ve watched this video! And to think I was worried - Silly me 😂

[@COOKIE_wcc_]

Cracking video couldn’t be more true I hate driving in Bradford full stop

[@millennialchicken]

Bradford is now a no go zone for ANYTHING. Driving, Walking, Breathing, Just don't go there AT ALL. Go to Halifax, Leeds, Skipton, Harrogate, anywhere but there.

[@loopyloujuggler]

This also applies to most of Birmingham, parts of London, Manchester and other big cities!

[@samcoppack9012]

Nearly blew my speakers then Ben 😂

[@jameshenderson5267]

Almost like being in Bolton 😜

[@PibrochPonder]

What’s the common factor?

[@france2j]

I live ib Leeds and had a delivwry driving job a few gears ago and gad to go to Bradford quite regularly to drop off. Jesus it's bad. Having to nagivate round abouts was hair raising

[@markgr1nyer]

Sparkbrook and Small Heath in Birmingham are the same

[@dantebingham6043]

Tbf did my test at the Thornbury test centre. Passed first time there are some bad days, Some good days turns out i chose a good one lol

[@jasonbored8319]

The driving instructors are strict. Its after you pass the care goes out of the window for some.

[@Rhiannon-Amber]

The “professional” drivers are the worst. A taxi driver drove into my horse in early June. 😒

[@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000]

How is the horse?

[@Rhiannon-Amber]

@@FlyingSpaghettiMonster2000 she’s ok thank you, cost me a mid 4 figure vet bill and the taxi firm can’t confirm which driver it was and the police weren’t really able to do much as we had no video footage 😩

[@cossiefordman720]

Aberdeen drivers are like this as well….dread the thought of driving near Haudagan Roundabout which is one of Europe’s worst….I avoid that place full stop if I can it’s literally like this

[@Andrew_Fernie]

wot ya sayin? ya need some respect bruv innit? Absolutely spot on. You forgot to mention that the examiner will hand out 10% window tint with the licence.

[@TNotoriousAdam]

the main issue in bradford now is the lack of police. This isnt just specific to bradford but you very rarely see a normal police car never mind a traffic one. The only time you see traffic cars these days are at car meets when you know they have better things to do and dont want to be there. Govt policing these days is do whatever is easiest with the least effort, they dont want to employ officers to go out and chase bad drivers, they want a camera set up to catch speeding offences. The other issue is in Bradford is because of the lack of police 90% of the drivers dont even have a license, all have dodgy insurance so there cars show up as insured and because they very rarely ever see an officer where is the risk?

[@CaptiveFreedoms]

Cyclists aren’t pedestrians so there’s no requirement to give way to them on zebra crossings but making contact could lead to a careless driving charge.

[@sy086]

This is in no means representitive of driving in Bradford. Absolutely disgusting that you'd suggest it was this way. It's FAR worse! 🤣

[@HeatseekerAlbert]

100% the worst place to drive. It seems to become very hectic as soon as it gets to around 19:00hrs. I guess that’s the time the freaks wake up! I avoid at all cost driving in the evening and at night in that hell hole!

[@desretroreels4949]

I've been to Bradford once, couldn't believe it, it's all Asian people no white British

[@user-tf5yg5ye9d]

You’ve probably never been to Bradford then

[@kane211]

Let’s be honest it’s mostly because there all Pakistani people

[@NadKB-7M]

What, even in the council estates... I think not! Shit drivers of all types in Bradford for sure though.

[@drankfrebin]

It's because Bradford is a mini bangalore isn't it, Indian women with Indian licenses.... with the seat as far forward as humanly possible and will never look in a mirror or even when you are bibbing 3ft away from their windows when they've just pulled out in you in a micra or Honda jazz....... must keep looking forward haha. Always look forward

[@AddBlue247]

@BenPearson It funny how you mention it. I find it completely wrong! When I did my Motorcycle test back in 2010, There are 4 tests to do and 1 training, plus the expenses for training for the other 2 that comes with the test. Pass mark: no more than 7 minus out of 20. (I had 3) I was only 19 years of age then. They have made the Motorcycle test even harder today(2023) by putting the age limit for an A* Licence to 24 years of age with a restrictions on anything over 599cc+. But a 17 year old driver can just pass his/her test and jump into daddies powerful lamborghini and go 100mph+ and crash into a crowded public area. There is no restrictions like they have on a motorcycle. It completely WRONG! They need to change this before the insurance for an years of experience on the road adults who drive their way to work all the time will go up and through the roof of more than they ever paid in their life.

[@RICHARD10195]

I agree as a driver and rider there is a massive difference in restrictions. Would stop all these idiots buying Golf R’s and RS3’s before they can actually handle them.

[@yorkshiremike5083]

The standard has fallen generally I think. Over in East Yorkshire, the danger I witness daily is young drivers motoring along, two inches from the rear bumper of the car in front of them. It's constant and with total disregard for stopping distances. I drop to 10 mph below whatever the speed limit is and sit at that speed. Most drivers still don't get it when I do that. As for Bradford. I only have the misfortune to go there with work and it's treated like an SAS mission. Always with a full tank of fuel. In/ out and without stopping. Not to fuel up, not for a coffee, to urinate. Nothing. In/ out and done. It's a unique place is Bradford.

[@christopherrichardson5652]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙈 Fecking Quality love this 😹

[@MattHealey.]

It’s everywhere. Same round Edinburgh mate

[@mirabiledictu3526]

I'd love your take on the autistic girl getting arrested

[@SP1D3Y244]

5:18-5:38 Omg, comedy gold 🤣🤣🤣

[@jeremywentworth1833]

Ben I always presumed West Yorkshire traffic coppers would patrol look after anywhere depending on the day, say Monday Leeds - Wakefield area Tuesday Bradford - Keighley Wednesday Halifax- Keighley, Thursday anywhere on M1-M62. West Yorkshire parts. etc etc so you just patrolled Bradford no where else. Think the last time I went to anywhere near Bradford was the Airport and I would class Yeadon more like Leeds area than anywhere near Bradford.

[@BenPearson1965]

I patrolled all of West Yorkshire, my main area was Bradford, Airedale and Keighley. But yes Monday could be Halifax, Tuesday Huddersfield and Wednesday the motorway. However you always got pulled back to Bradford for a pursuit. So 19 years around all of West Yorkshire car, motorcycle or riot duties.

[@kujouk]

I never knew it was so easy to pass year test in Bradford, wish I'd have know this years ago. If I don't have a car to take my test in, is it ok to use one I've found on the side of the road? Also if I have a few fake names, do I get a pass on each, can I carry some mates in the car so we all pass?

[@michaelw9285]

I'll see your Bradford and raise you Small Heath, Bordesley Green, Alum Rock and Spark Hill in Birmingham... similar logic. You have to take your life in your hands when driving in those areas.

[@loganbozzy]

No one is going to believe me but i acc took that photo of the Audi in the thumb nail , it was a stolen car that crashed in Stockport on Carrington road ,Portwood

[@leedsgeek2681]

If you look at certain enthic areas and you look at the pass rate of the driving center it will be fairly high, thornbury test center. Or harehills center both really high pass rates but look at horsforth test center has quite a low pass rate. I would say there is a element of discrimination

[@TheXasasin1]

Lol what you on mate. Heaton/thornbury/harehills/Heckmondwike are amongst the lowest in the country.

[@Craig-Healy]

It must be insanely frustrating for you as a retired police officer who witnesses such shambles and literally can't do a single thing about it, where as before you were on it like a fly on shit 😂 As a HGV driver I see some sorts daily (putting it nicely) and when (which is rare thank god) my paper work in the morning says off to Bradford and surrounding areas I think dear god haha! I must add no disrespect to the people of Bradford, do meet some lovely locals but a lot of the driving is like woahhh!

[@bmused55]

Have a friend in Bradford, just visited for the weekend. The standard of driving in Bradford is absolutely atrocious.

[@michaeloconnor7849]

There's probably about 500 good drivers. They are so good they have each passed their test a hundred times each.

[@benmarshall787]

As a professional driver travelling regularly into Bradford I'm afraid that rubbish driving is everywhere Ben, I also travel through Beeston,Holbeck and into Leeds city centre and there are some staggering bafoons behind the wheel . The elephant in the room of course , WYP seem to be thin on the ground in all departments not just traffic, there isn't any kind of police presence out there and there needs to be. Enjoy your channel , the triple parking I'd conquer with most! Best wishes, Ben 🚐🚌🇺🇦🇬🇧🤞🍀

[@nickb5391]

You have hit the nail on the head, the standard of driving now is disgusting, i've even had a driving school instructor trying to cut me up on the inside, in Birmingham it is mayhem you need eyes in your backside

[@Alt33946]

I drive a bus in Birmingham.. one route going through sparkhill Stratford road/formans . Rules don’t exist there, never seen traffic enforcement. People double parked across corners double reds.. it’s a nightmare in the bus I have to bully people out of the way even then people will still drive straight at the bus untill last minute realising they can’t get through… the place is another world to me especially seeing as I come from a village to work in brum everyday

[@MrShuttz]

What's the common denominator?

[@Graham6410]

They seem to teach the people how to pass the test but not how to drive around Southend

[@carlosfrumpy4895]

I hate Bradford with a passion amount of lights

[@user-ix6mh4jo4d]

Sounds like driving in portsmouth

[@stevie_rides]

Hi Ben, The way you play these characters is worthy of a saop opera 😅😂. Made me chuckle. I drive, ride or cycle in Bradford every day and agree that more needs to be done to improve the standards. Unfortunately it's the mentally of many drivers in the district to break all traffic laws, as mu h as possable. My pet hate has to be mobile phone use... its everywhere! Followed closely by speeding. Funny video......serious message.....more needs to be done

[@gregpodmore2850]

The majority of driver's in Bradistan, are used to driving goat's and sheep. 😂😂😂😂

[@Person-gk5ee]

I drive in Huddersfield and it sounds the same. Lots of nobheads on the roads in Hudds

[@beefovbd2]

but ben , the telegraph and argus tells us its a safe utopia , with magic and sparkle and friendly people , a city of sanctuary they say . but as a resident of wrose i can absolutely say its a shit tip ,

[@davidtaylorbfd]

I get slated every time I say Bradford is a dump when I comment on Facebook. People need to open their eyes more, we are living in a shitehole.

[@beefovbd2]

@@davidtaylorbfd exactly pal , the good among us are silenced ,balls to Bradford not the city of culture .

[@kevinjordan9855]

@@davidtaylorbfd You are talking about central Bradford I know someone who lives in Birkenshaw which is a nice area but has a Bradford postcode

[@davidtaylorbfd]

@@kevinjordan9855 Yeah I probably am but sadly these people are now moving into the nicer areas of the City 😩.

[@PibrochPonder]

Some of the non indigenous population of that town wrote my car off earlier in the year. And yes they also lied to the insurance company. Cultural enrichment I guess.

[@timothydraper6626]

Dog whistle racism.

[@DC3Refom]

​@@timothydraper6626 ​😂🤡

[@PibrochPonder]

@@timothydraper6626 it’s the truth and the facts. Is the fact that the road with the highest number of whiplash claims in the country was also in Bradford a dog whistle racism statement? Facts are facts.

[@timothydraper6626]

@@PibrochPonder You talk about 'some of the non indigenous population', since it's many centuries from when before the first people from outside of Britain made their way here, none of us are as indigenous as the Picts many centuries ago, or the Celts in Wales (thought by many to be some of the last truly indigenous people these isles, as they were pushed and kept westwards by population movement from outside of Britain), and the English man Winston Churchill spoke of us being 'a mongrel race', which means that, when you throw in a sarcastic use of 'cultural enrichment' - the term 'dog whistle racism' is an excellent fit, since you are subtly implying that anything (or anybody) which is of a different culture to Britain's, is both negative and non indigenous, when we haven't had an indigenous population for a very very long time, as noted by Winston Churchill, coincidentally enough the leader whom so many racists like to reference. You'll have head the term 'Roman nose' (commonly seen in your fellow 'indigenous' Brits) before, that originally came from the region of Italy with the Romans, many centuries ago. So, how 'indigenous' are you, have you traced your ancestry back to the Celts, or to the Picts?

[@timothydraper6626]

@@PibrochPonder I'm dying to know how 'indigenous' you turn out to be....Roman ancestry is in many of our family trees, I'm white British and Roman noses abound in my close family, so one can't call me indigenous, I've no Welsh ancestry, thoroughly a mongrel as termed by Winston Churchill, the leader this nation's racists admire so much.

[@artistonamotorbike]

Bradford is mariokart. I was undertaken by unlicensed quads and motorbikes. Have expected someone throw a green shell at me.

[@gavinreid2741]

Another thing...seem to be no traffic wardens in Bradford.

[@carlrobson5745]

standard of driving is horrendous certianly noticed after lockdown when people got back behind the wheel another thing people are far too impaitent to get to their desttination some will end up in the back of a black private ambulance one day.

[@richardgiles2484]

Bradford must be a twined with South Wales 😂😂😂

[@David_D.]

HAHAHAHA, BRILLIANT!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@scottthompson5800]

I'm going to get my lisance in Bradford lol

[@janepearson5802]

Its like driving in India, terrifying

[@BillyButlin123]

Ben, you know the reason, you just won’t say it. Some of the comments on here might help.

[@timothydraper6626]

Go on then...

[@dholland32]

Bradford born & bred, no arguments on my side,