A road safety emergency was declared by Birmingham City Council in July 2024 after a high number of serious and fatal crashes on the city’s road network.

More recently, the authority has adopted a road harm reduction strategy, which will see £10m put towards delivering an action plan on the issue.

On Friday, campaigners will gather in Victoria Square to mark one year of the emergency and take part in a monthly protest ride around the city.

Campaign group Better Streets for Birmingham said it “cautiously welcomed” recent statistics showing a reduction in deaths and serious injuries in the first half of 2025.

But the group’s chair Martin Price warned: “Declaring the road safety emergency was the easy part.

“We now need to see policy and action plans turn into realities.”