new delhi not just school authorities or private transporters but even parents have been found wanting in securing the safety of children while commuting to school a recent study showsnearly 47 of children and parents surveyed admitted that school buses or vans dont have seatbelts in the case of private transport it is as high as 72 moreover 20 of the respondents children and parents who use self or family driven cars to schools admitted that they dont wear seatbelts and nearly 34 of the respondents claimed that they never wear a helmet while riding a twowheeler to schoolthe study carried out across 14 major cities including delhi mumbai kolkata chennai bengaluru lucknow jaipur and ahmedabad with a sample size of 11845 also found that nearly 30 of children admitted that they have witnessed a road crash during their travel to school while 6 of them were involved in such accidentsaccording to the safe commute to school study by savelife foundation and the rd wing of mercedesbenz school buses are the most preferred mode of transport nearly onethird of the children among respondents said they travel by school bus followed by school van 12 and another 11 of children commute to school by walkingthe study covered different aspects of commuting to school by transport provided by the schools privately arranged by parents using own or family driven vehicles and safety around the educational institutions the report said based on the responses of parents 20 of those using school affiliated transport said their child mostly or sometimes complains about rash driving overtaking and jumping of red lights at traffic signals around 22 of parents claimed that their children dont wait for the vehicle to come fully to a stop before boarding or deboardingas per the report over 70 of respondents reported the presence of fire extinguishers in school buses and over 75 of them reported the presence of a first aid kit however less than half of the respondents claimed that their vehicles had emergency contact numbers listed the study found that 39 of respondents reported that vehicles were fitted with safety tools like firstaid box fire extinguishers etc