A cycling safety campaigner has called for a 20mph limit on London’s roads following the death of a cyclist.

A 50-year-old man was killed after a collision with a car in Forward Drive, Harrow shortly after midnight on Sunday, June 21.

The cyclist's death brings the total number of cyclists killed on London's roads this year to seven.

A 31-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving and has been bailed to a date in mid-September.

CEO of the London Cycling Campaign Ashok Sinha said: “Without commenting on this particular case, speed and poor road layout are major contributions to deaths and serious injury to cyclists and pedestrians.

“As well as protected space for cycling on major roads, a 20mph speed limit – properly enforced – must be made the norm on London’s streets, with heavy sanctions against those who break it.”

In a statement on its website, the London Cycling Campaign explained that the road forms part of one of the only east to west routes through Harrow.

The statement read: “It is popular with cyclists but is also notorious for rat-running motor traffic.

“The road is signposted as a cycle route but there is no provision for safe cycling.

“The carriageway width varies alarmingly and there is a successions of nasty roundabouts designed to speed up through traffic rather than enable safe crossing points.”

Some people have taken to social media following the death, saying the route is a ‘notorious rat run’.

Anoop Shah tweeted: “A rat run just outside Harrow leisure centre with narrow pinch points and no speed control measures.”