Police in the North are continuing to question a man (18) after a boy (8) was killed when he was hit by a car in Co Antrim yesterday morning.

Adam Gilmour was walking along the road with his mother and five siblings when they were struck near the village of Cloughmills.

The other children are stable or have been discharged from hospital. One of them was not injured.

It has emerged the young boys mother had previously raised concerns about the safety of her school run.

Her local MLA Jim Allister had written to the Education Board to request transport for the family on October 20th.

He says the woman feared for her children's lives on the road.

"The school bus was refusing to come up their road to pick them up. In consequence she was required to walk six children, including one in the buggy, every morning coming into the winter time."

"Down a narrow country road with no footpaths and no lighting. She said to me, 'One morning we're going to be wiped out', and sadly that's the essence of what happened," Mr Allister added.