Photo: Lucinda Rees
A road safety campaigner says speed limits outside rural schools must be lowered as part of the government's new Road Safety Strategy being developed. Currently drivers are required to slow down to 20 kilometres per hour to pass a school bus which has stopped, but otherwise the speed limit outside rural schools is often 100 kilometers per hour. Lucinda Rees of the advocacy group New Zealand School Speeds says rural kids are at much higher risk of harm that their urban cousins. Brent Johnston is the Ministry of Transport's Manager for Mobility and Safety.
