Loop News The Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining, is prioritising children as it places increased focus on protecting vulnerable road users. Acting Director of the Unit, Deidre Hudson Sinclair, said that nine children have been killed on the roads as at June 7. She noted that the number of child road fatalities, to date, while two less than the 11 recorded for the same period in 2019, is concerning, particularly as there are fewer children on the roads, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions, which include school closures. “We have seen a decrease in children using our road network so we are at a point now where we have to [ask] if it wasn’t COVID what would we be looking at?” Mrs. Hudson-Sinclair said.