A young man has the first part of this on video. And I have seen it with my own eyes:

A Duck with twelve very little Ducklings crossing the main street of Kaitaia (Commerce Street) from about where the BNZ is. A car is coming along – but stopping just in time to let the ducks cross safely over the road.

By now quite a good number of people have gathered – I can see at least one person with a camera – watching the ducks trying to cross the main street again – but this time they are almost getting run over. The crossing of the street is not successful this time and they are coming back to the side where they came from.

Eventually they are going off into the nearby park – hopefully to safety.

But I did not even have my camera on me!