As Krista Holloway watched a group of Arbor View High School students gather at a crosswalk outside the school Wednesday, she talked about why she started her volunteer crossing guard group.

“I’d rather get hit than one of them get hit,” Holloway said.

As a mother of two Arbor View students, she feels a strong responsibility to keep children safe on their daily trips to and from school.

This year, Holloway founded Walk Safely LV, an advocacy group composed of four mothers who spend part of their weekday mornings and afternoons volunteering as crossing guards at two schools in the Las Vegas Valley.

The group formed in May, just days after 18-year-old McKenzie Scott was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver while in a crosswalk outside Arbor View.

Five months later, the moms e

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