CHARLESTON COUNTY, SC (WCIV) — Mount Pleasant parents are pushing for major safety changes after Mount Pleasant police say a boy was seriously injured while riding his bike to school.

The parents say it happened in October while the child was riding his bike to Moultrie Middle School. They say the area where he was hit should become a four-way stop to make things safer for everyone.

“This is a 12-year-old boy laying in the road on his way to school holding my hand saying he doesn’t want to die today,” Witness Greg Dyer shared with the Mount Pleasant Transportation Committee on Monday.

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Greg Dyer remembers that October morning like it was yesterday. He says he saw the boy hit by a car near the intersection of Belle View Drive and King Street and immediately called 911.

“He was banging on the hood of the car and telling the woman to stop,” Dyer said. “She continued, pulled him under the car, drugged him 30 meters from the intersection when I heard the screams over my truck.”

Parents say traffic on Simmons Street and Fairmont Ave is backing up into the residential area and many other walkers and bicyclists have had close calls.

“Every morning I see contractors driving through King Street, way over the speed limit. And that morning I saw that boy hit by a car,” Dyer said during public comment.

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Because of the boy’s age, his name has not been released. Moultrie Parent Teacher Organization President Tiffany Moye says the boy underwent multiple surgeries at MUSC, but fortunately survived the incident. The boy is in a wheelchair and hopes to walk again by Christmas. Moye said it is in the best interest of all students and teachers in the area for the city to put in two additional stop signs, making the intersection a four-way stop.

“While it may or may not be the kid’s fault for stopping at a stop sign, these kids are flying and it’s never going to stop,” Moye said. “Adding a stop sign there, going down King, would help those kids and cars to keep that from happening.”

News 4 has not yet received the police report from Mount Pleasant Police and does not know if charges have been filed. Council members did not decide on adding additional stop signs at Monday’s meeting, but said they would consider the motion. They say they will have to work with the South Carolina Department of Transportation on this matter.