Child road deaths already double figure for last year

The number of children killed on the roads has already more than doubled this year, stark figures reveal.

Road chiefs have voiced their worries about the sharp buck in the trend over recent years for fewer child deaths as a result of road accidents.

Already this year, 13 children aged under 14 years have died in road collisions. Last year, six children lost their lives on the roads. Six of the children who died this year were pedestrians, six were car passengers and one was a quad bike user.