Parents of a man killed in a road accident in Baku have called on Formula One’s governing body to do more to improve road safety in the city ahead of its first grand prix in the summer.

Micah Maxwell-Milne, 23, from Banstead, was killed after the Mercedes he was travelling in collided with a Ford Transit in the city centre last year.

He was working for the company staging the opening and closing ceremonies at last year’s controversial European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, and was killed while travelling back from a night shift in the centre.

The 23-year-old’s death followed shortly after a shuttle bus at the Games ploughed into three Austrian athletes - leaving a 15-year-old with multiple fractures.

Mr Maxwell-Milne’s mother, Jennifer Maxwell-Milne, said Formula One and Federation Internationale De L’Automobile (FIA) have a duty to do more to improve road safety in Baku.

She said: “The FIA and the Azerbaijan government have a duty to make sure more is done to protect those travelling there, and F1 owe it to the fans travelling from all over the world to the event, to ensure their safety.”

“We hope that they will listen to us, and work with us to do something positive.

“I want this to change, desperately.”

The FIA runs a range of road safety programmes internationally.

Azerbaijan has one of the worst road safety records in Europe, and according to World Health Organization (WHO) it sees 1,265 road traffic accidents a year.

This is an estimated road traffic death rate of 10 per 100,000 of the population, compared to 2.9 per 100,000 in the UK.

Thousands of people are set to flock to the European F1 Grand Prix, which will be held in Baku for the first time in June - almost a year after the death of Mrs Maxwell-Milne’s son.

Mrs Maxwell-Milne added: “You would go out there and think that because you’re going to a Formula One event then you are going to be relatively safe, but that isn’t necessarily true.

“More people are killed by road-traffic accidents than by terrorist activity, but an event would never be held where there is an extreme risk of that.

“We hope that F1 will listen to us, and work with us to do something positive. I want this to change, desperately.”

The driver of the Transit which collided with the Mercedes Mr Maxwell-Milne was travelling in was sentenced to nine years in prison following a criminal trial.

An inquest into his death, held on March 18, recorded a verdict of death by road traffic collision.

Mr Maxwell-Milne worked in production at the London 2012 Olympics, Sochi 2012 Olympics and a host of other live events, tours and festivals.

His sister, Saffron Maxwell-Milne, said: “We were not prepared to let Micah’s death mean nothing.

“This is why we have started a campaign to improve road safety in Azerbaijan, so that hopefully no other families will have to go through the turmoil we have had to."