Photo: via NZMEThe number of children killed on New Zealand roads this year has already outstripped last year's total. As of yesterday, 19 children aged under 15 had died in crashes, according to Ministry of Transport data. Caroline Perry, director of Brake New Zealand - a road safety charity - said it was devastating when a child was killed on the roads. Eight of the children killed last year were aged between 10-14, six of those being passengers in cars, one a cyclist and the other a pedestrian. "There are mistakes that children make just because they're children and they don't deserve to pay for it with their lives," she said.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 14, 2019 02:48 UTC