Totally safe.
The pics — a corollary to this — are from China News via MIC Gadget, which reports:
A Chinese woman was seen driving a fully packed motor tricycle carrying 31 schoolchildren back home from school in Zhongmou county, Henan province, central China. A small girl approximately of the age of 10 was holding the steering wheel as if the tricycle was driven by her.
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It’s the One Motor Tricycle Per School Policy. Urban residents and ethnic minorities are allowed to have two.
Its probably safer than the car carrying 40 students.