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VIDEO | Dozens of students dodge Hwy. 17 traffic in Mount Pleasant


{p}Dozens of children were caught on ABC News 4's SkyView 4 drone running across Highway 17 after the bell rang at Wando High School. No crossing guard or intersection in sight. (WCIV){/p}

Dozens of children were caught on ABC News 4's SkyView 4 drone running across Highway 17 after the bell rang at Wando High School. No crossing guard or intersection in sight. (WCIV)

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Dozens of children were caught on ABC News 4's SkyView 4 drone running across Highway 17 after the bell rang at Wando High School. No crossing guard or intersection in sight.

At least 50 children making a break for it across traffic moving at least 45 miles-per-hour.

First, the students cross through the woods to the highway. Then they make a run for it just feet from speeding cars.

Wando Freshman Kaleb Grieco was one of those kids. ABC News 4's Anne Emerson stopped him right after he ran across six lanes of traffic and asked him if his mom knew where he crossed, and he said yes.

Then ABC News 4 called his mom. “He said they called me to do an interview on crossing and I was like, 'well, I hope they busted you because you know you are not supposed to cross in the middle!'” Kylie Grieco said.

Kylie said she also worries the kids cannot judge the speed of the cars traveling on Hwy.17. “Kids think they have plenty of room to get across, but god forbid they don’t."

ABC News 4 called the Mount Pleasant Police Department to witness what our reporter was seeing. “I was highly surprised there was as many as there was. I thought there would be like one or two, but they were coming across in groups of three and four,” PFC J.D. Floyd said.

Our reporter even saw one child getting picked up on the other side.

Officer Floyd is warning students and parents to be smarter. “Spend the 15 minutes waiting in line to pick your kid up so they are safe, cause the last thing you want to do is be sitting here waiting on your kid, and watch the walk across the road, and they get hit by a car right in front of you."

ABC News 4 showed the video to Charleston County School District Board Member Kate Darby, and who echoed the call of safety to parents. “Talk to the principal, talk to the school improvement council, and let them stress that or at least get some discussion going on what the options are."

There is a crosswalk at the entrance to Wando High School at Carolina Park Boulevard. Children told our reporter talked to agreed that's the safest option, but they say it's just not the fastest, and that's the problem.

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