AVERAGE speed cameras will be installed on the A1079 between York and Hull in the next few months.

The cameras will be installed around Market Weighton and Arras Hill, an accident blackspot that has seen a number of serious incidents in recent years, and roads experts say that as well as making the road safer they will improve traffic flow on the route.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council will next week look at contracts for companies to provide the cameras, which will be in place along the busy road by the end of this financial year.

The new technology will also stop dangerous "camera surfing", where drivers slam the brakes on when they spot a camera, and speed up once they pass it.

"Average speed cameras stop that, and you get a better flow of traffic," said a Safer Roads Humberside spokesman.

"We can see that average speed cameras around the country get better compliance with the speed limits."

The cameras have been planned for as long as two years, but with Government approval finally in place and the right technology tracked down, staff at Safer Roads Humberside have finally got the go ahead.

The project will replace six old-fashioned "wet film" cameras, which log a car's speed at one particular point, with a series of cameras which will catch any drivers who go over the speed limit along a whole stretch of road around Market Weighton and Beverley.

The Safer Roads Humberside spokesman said the old cameras were coming to the end of their life and needed to be replaced.

On Tuesday (Sep 15) the cabinet of East Riding of Yorkshire Council will look at the contract for design and installation of the cameras.

Cabinet leader Cllr Stephen Parnaby said: "I fully support anything that reduces accidents, injuries and fatalities.

"Although they might be frustrating for drivers, average speed cameras do work better than fixed cameras.

"I travel that road from Beverley to York often, and you don't gain anything from trying to go faster.

"Ideally that whole road should be a dual carriageway from York to Beverley, but we're not going to get that so we need to do what we can to improve it."