Two people have been hit by cars and more than 900 drivers nabbed speeding around Canberra's schools since the middle of last year, endangering students, their families and teachers.
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One pupil and one parent have been hit by cars in southside school zones this year.
Meanwhile, ACT police recorded 918 speeding offences in the 2013-14 financial year, with drivers defying 40km/h speed limits around schools.
The ACT Council of Parents & Citizens Associations has launched a survey of traffic problems around Canberra's public schools in response to complaints of dangerous driving, dodgy parking and increasing fears for children's safety.
Two of the territory's 29 collisions involving pedestrians this year have occurred in school zones between 8am and 4pm weekdays, preliminary collision figures for 2014 show.
A child was hit outside Mawson Primary School in Ainsworth Street, while a car collided with an adult in Theodore Street near Curtin Primary School. They were not injured in the collisions.
However, a Territory and Municipal Services spokeswoman said the figures could change as incidents between January and August could still be reported to Roads ACT.
Another child was hit by a car in May 2013, ACT government crash statistics show.
A Richardson Primary School pupil was hit by a station wagon while riding a scooter over a children's crossing in May Gibbs Close after the driver failed to stop.
The spokeswoman said the territory had a good record around schools, with Richardson Primary the only school zone among the 49 pedestrian collisions reported in 2013.
She said most ACT schools had 40km/h school zones and a crossing facility to bolster a safe journey to and from school.
Speeding incidents have been more commonin the past financial year.
Motorists driving through school areas in Narrabundah, including Narrabundah College and St Benedict's Primary, notched up a whopping 131 speeding offences in total in the 2013-14 year.
The figure is almost double the 76 fines issued in Nicholls, the second-highest number in ACT school zones. Holy Spirit Primary School and John Paul College are in the Gungahlin suburb.
Police also issued the highest number of cautions in school zones in Narrabundah, 75, during the same period.
Other suburbs with a large number of speeding offences recorded around schools included Wanniassa on 43, Harrison on 42 and Bruce on 36.
While police reported 15 speeding fines in Phillip, which encompasses the Canberra College Woden campus, the Woden Valley suburb recorded almost three times as many cautions during the previous financial year.
Police cautioned 49 motorists speeding, the second-highest number of cautions in the 12-month period.
Speeding was less of an issue in Amaroo, Duffy, Farrer, Flynn, Hume, Latham, Macquarie, Melba, Scullin, Theodore and Weetangera, with only one school zone speeding offence reported in each suburb and no more than two cautions per area.
An ACT Policing spokeswoman said police did 797 targeted traffic operations in school zones in the 2013-14 financial year during school terms.
While speeding cars have endangered the safety of children, parents and staff walking to and from school, dodgy parking has also wreaked havoc.
Since the beginning of term one in February this year, parking officers have attended schools 44 times in response to complaints by members of the public, and have issued 68 infringement notices in school zones.
This number does not include fines issued in school zones during regular patrols.
A Justice and Community Safety Directorate spokeswoman said most complaints related to cars stopping on or near children's crossings, drivers disobeying no parking signs, and motorists leaving cars in no parking zones.
