New Delhi: 20 children are killed in road accidents every day, a BJP member said in Lok Sabha on Friday, making a strong pitch for a comprehensive law to make roads a safer place and to eliminate the 'silent killer'.

Raising the issue during zero hour, Kirron Kher said the National Crime Records Bureau in its 2013 statistics showed that 7,300 children have died in road accidents. He said that the deaths were 'alarming', given the fact that they were 300 per cent more than all crimes against children put together.