A Rotorua mum hopes a school bus trial in the South Island will be rolled out across the country to make drivers more aware of children on the roads.
Bus safety campaigner Lisa Collins wants all school buses to be fitted with illuminated flashing 20km/h signs - the legal speed limit for vehicles in both directions when passing a stationary school bus. Her son Grant Scott-Collins died aged 13, in 2008 after he was hit getting off a school bus in Kaitaia.
A trial is under way in Ashburton with 30 school buses fitted with illuminated flashing 20km/h signs. They will operate until at least June 2014, but Mrs Collins wants every school bus to have a flashing sign.
"I slowed down for a bus and someone nearly rear-ended me," Mrs Collins said.
"They weren't prepared to slow down. At the moment the law is there but people don't abide by it. I would like to see lights as a minimum so people know to slow down.