While the official national road toll is on a record three-year high, the members of public continue to baffle police and other stakeholders in road safety management.
Police were surprised to receive a report of a child driving a car in Paremoremo, yesterday, January 09, at around midday.
It is reported that a mum was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, with her nine-year-old driving in the driver’s seat.
They’d been on a residents-only public access road, used by other cars and considered to be a public road.
The mum admitted letting her daughter drive and said she was going to pull the handbrake on if her daughter lost control.
After the officer had explained the dangers of allowing a nine-year-old to drive a car, the mum was given a warning.
It is important to note that New Zealand's road tolls have dramatically increased since 2014 after a decade-long gradual downturn suggesting some significant change in social and psychological conditions determining driver behaviour on our streets.
The 2017 road toll already stands at 10.