SAFER September<\/a>, which is an opportunity for students to contribute to their community by leading and inspiring others to change their behaviour on the road for the better.<\/p>\n\u201cThis month is an important one for all involved in our organisation,\u201d said Kaitiaki o Ara\/SADD General Manager, Donna Govorko.<\/p>\n
\u201cWitnessing young Kiwis committing to reducing these numbers and reversing the curve that we are becoming too familiar with is incredibly motivating.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2022, 376 people died on New Zealand roads – more than one a day.\u00a0 As September 2023 begins – that number is currently 225 – a rate of 28 fatalities a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An annual month-long road safety campaign, encouraging Kiwi youth to lead their peers and influence those around them to make better road safety decisions has launched in New Zealand. Student-led organisation Kaitiaki o Ara\/SADD is kicking off its initiative, Student Advocates for Everyone\u2019s Road safety or SAFER September, which is an opportunity for students to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-safety-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}