A mother has called for measures to curb speeding traffic in a Borehamwood street before someone is killed.

Farida Karimi, 39, says cars and buses are speeding in Nicoll Way, where she lives, and putting lives in danger.

The mother is so afraid of the risk she has forbidden her ten-year-old daughter Parasdoo and nine-year-old son Shahin from playing in the residential street, which has a speed limit of 30mph.

Along with other Nicoll Way residents, she signed a petition, calling for the introduction of traffic calming in the street, which was given to Hertsmere Borough Council's highways partnership.

Mrs Karimi said: 'There has already been one accident in Nicoll Way: last year a car hurt a young boy.

'There will be a very big accident without traffic calming, and possibly someone could die. We need this problem sorted out.'

She added: 'Since they have put the humps in Kenilworth Drive, people use Nicoll Way.'

Mrs Karimi said that traffic calming would also make it safer for children attending Saffron Green First School, in Nicoll Way.

She added that cars parking on both sides of the road often meant buses were unable to pass.

Muthiah Gunarajah, Hertsmere Highways Partnership manager for Borehamwood, said Nicoll Way was already being assessed to see if road markings and signs could be improved.

He added that the road was one of about 55 roads on a list to be assessed, by the end of the year, for traffic calming.

He said the roads would be prioritised according to the need for traffic measures, based on criteria like accidents, speed and volume of traffic and whether there were schools. Funding is then sought by Hertfordshire County Council.

Mr Gunarajah said: 'There are quite a few roads which need some sort of work done and we can only get limited funds.'

But Mrs Karimi, unhappy about the wait, said: 'We want it a lot earlier. Are they waiting for somebody to die before they put in the humps?'.

In response to residents' calls for traffic calming in Theobald Street, following a crash last week, Mr Gunarajah said the street, like other main roads, was continually monitored, including recording accidents, to assess the need for traffic measures.