Yakima -- I spent four days watching these local intersections.

I watched parents drop their kids off in the mornings and pick them up in the afternoons.

I talked to cops, parents, Principals and kids. Those conversations combined with city numbers and our station archives for previous stories led us to the most dangerous three spots in the city. They're right outside some large schools.

It's a watch list that you need to watch out for.

Scott Mayes says, "There's a lot of traffic and a lot of kids coming in at the same time."

Busy intersections packed with speeders, narrow streets and nowhere to walk.

Joan Davenport, Yakima Traffic Engineer says, "We are so sidewalk poor in Yakima in many, many of the locations near schools."

Put it all together and you get a dangerous intersection.

Certainly not a place you'd want your kid walking.

But that's just what I found at our first dangerous intersection.

It's number three on our list, Viola and 3rd Ave.

15,000 cars drive through here every day.

500 students attend Hoover Elementary and cars are supposed to go just 20 mph.

Parents say they rarely do and many kids from Hoover have to cross this intersection every day.

Nicole Haberman says, "I do worry about that. You never know if a child's going to step off the curb and a car's going to go by and hit them."

This mom walks on the outside of the sidewalk near Viola and 3rd Avenue to make sure her kids don't step into traffic.

The second most dangerous intersection I found is here Englewood & Powerhouse.

Take a look at how the streets don't match up, there are no sidewalks and several blind spots.

Once again, there's a school located right at this intersection.

So students on their way home from Robertson Elementary are walking in the street right next to cars.

Donel Henderson says, "In general I wouldn't even walk on this road."
Sade Malloy, KIMA Action News says, "Why wouldn't you walk on it?"
Donel Henderson says, "It's too dangerous."

And he's a grown man.

But the worst intersection in the city is here 16th and Tieton.

It tops our list, this spot averages about one accident every month.

In the past 5 years at least three of those accidents involved pedestrians.

I wanted to know what makes this spot so bad, part of it could be the lanes on Tieton are two feet smaller than other main streets.

Sade Malloy, KIMA Action News says, "Congestion from normal street traffic, buses and cars at Franklin Middle School during the afternoon pickup make the situation worse and increases the risk of accidents."

Sade Malloy, KIMA Action News "Who's to blame is it the driver or the pedestrian?"
Sgt. Gary Jones, Yakima Police Department says, "Well in most situations there's never one cause."

Even if there's no one person to blame the city is taking action.

Yakima will receive about $200,000 for a Pedestrian Safety Grant.

The money will be spent on adding ramps, fixing broken sidewalks, and improving pedestrian markers on Tieton from 16th to 24th Avenues.

Some money will also pay overtime for traffic cops to watch these areas where people are walking.

Bonnie York says, "We have had in the past one or two kids get hit by a car on 16th."

The Principals at Franklin and Robertson have been working with the city for months.

In November they walked around the schools and had some preliminary ideas about putting in a roundabout at Englewood & Powerhouse.

There's also talk of widening the sidewalks and adding more crosswalks near our most dangerous intersection by Franklin Middle School.

But so far nothing has been done.

So it's up to you or up to the kids, to watch where you're going.