- Parents and students are urging for the construction of a $12 million pedestrian overpass at Coastal Carolina University following the death of a student and serious injury of another on S.C. Highway 544.
CONWAY — Just a few hours after Doug Kreis dropped his daughter off for another year of study at Coastal Carolina University, tragedy struck again.
Two students crossing S.C. Highway 544 were hit by a car. One later died and the other was seriously injured.
“We can’t let this happen again. Three different kids are dead at the same location,” Kreis, struggling through emotion, said at a Sept. 1 Horry County Council meeting…