Birmingham announces an extensive road safety campaign

4 August 2023

Birmingham has announced an extensive road safety campaign. In a joint statement, West Midlands mayor Andy Street, Transport for West Midlands (TFWM), West Midlands Police, Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster, Birmingham City Council, and walking and cycling commissioner Adam Tranter, said they are ‘working towards an environment where no-one is killed or seriously injured on our roads’.

Initiatives include:

• A new Operation Triton, led by Police and supported by partners, will focus on relentless enforcement of the rules of the road through intelligence-led operations and hot spot enforcement.
• A second team on the West Midlands Police Road Harm Prevention Team will bolster efforts to enforce against people who endanger vulnerable road users. In addition, two new road crime teams will work day and night to target the most dangerous of drivers.
• TfWM will launch a new high-profile road safety campaign in August supported and co-funded by each partner.
• In September, TfWM will launch a revised Road Safety Strategy with the goal of a 50% reduction in the number of people killed and seriously injured on our road network by the end of 2030; this is a pathway to our ultimate target of Vision Zero.