Rural Women New Zealand endorses the call by the chief coroner for it to become mandatory for coroners’ recommendations to be responded to by Government agencies. Read More

Rural Women New Zealand applauds a new campaign by Southern District police to enforce the 20kmh speed limit past a school bus that has stopped to let children on or off, and is calling for the campaign to be rolled out nationally. Read More

Below are two Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Limited (TERNZ) reports we thought would be of interest. Click on the reports to open up a PDF copy. Read More

Jackie Edkins, RWNZ Communications Officer on Radio New Zealand Nine to Noon show talking about our school bus safety campaign.  Read More

Jackie Edkins, Communications Officer, Rural Women NZ on Radio New Zealand talking about school bus safety. Listen 3:10sec in. Read More

Rural Women New Zealand’s push for 20kmh flashing signs to be fitted to all school buses got a boost last week with the release by the New Zealand Transport Agency of new research that shows encouraging driver reaction to the signs. Read More

A 14-year-old Northland school girl is in a serious condition after she was struck by a bus outside her school. We need action now to stop these accidents from happening! Rural Women New Zealand has called a high level meeting of people involved in these issues, to be held in Wellington on 3 November.  Read More

  Our campaign for 20kmh flashing signs to be installed on all school buses got valuable airtime this week, as former RWNZ National Councillor, Sue Saunders, was a guest on TVCentral News.   Read More

Rural Women New Zealand applauds Transport Minister Steven Joyce’s decision to accept our recommendation and extend the 20kmh speed limit past school buses to 20 seconds before and after a school bus has stopped if the bus is displaying a flashing sign. Read More