Mayor Ken Livingstone is calling for councils to introduce 20mph speed limits for all residential streets.

One bend on Elmstead Lane is already a 20mph limit but elsewhere the limit is 30mph.

Mr Livingstone said: “Designating all residential streets as 20mph zones will make a huge difference to cutting road casualties.”

Bromley’s cabinet member for environment and leisure Cllr Colin Smith said it would not impose schemes without consultation.

He said: “One aspect is the Mayor’s intention to enforce them with a camera on every street and my gut feel is that Bromley residents may not be universally in favour.”

Police, fire, ambulance and council services held a joint partnership meeting to tackle road safety after the Elmstead Lane campaign.

The head of Bromley police’s Youth and Partnership Unit, Insp Paul Etheridge, said:

“We are aware of people’s concerns about road safety especially Elmstead Lane, given the two tragic fatalities there recently.

"It’s our job to react to these concerns quickly and appropriately.The aim of this seminar is to find ways for our partnership to effectively educate people and get the road-safety messages across, enabling us to further reduce Bromley’s road casualty rates, especially among our young people.”

Bromley council said the partnership was not new. Senior road safety officer, Elaine Beadle, said: “Statistics show that Bromley’s roads are amongst the safest in London, but we want to make them safer.

“We will continue to work with the police, fire brigade and ambulance crews.”