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| Jones' Lincoln Town Car smashed head-on into a highway support pillar off the H-1 Freeway in the Pearl Harbor/Hickam area.
Deborah Booker • The Honolulu Advertiser |
By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer
June Jones, national coach of the year, motivational speaker and icon to the state of Hawai‘i, may play a new role when he recovers from Thursday’s car crash.
"We’re going to make him the poster boy for wearing a seat belt," said Marilyn Kali, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation.
Jones cannot speak, because of a breathing tube. But transportation officials don’t anticipate that he will hesitate to talk up the virtues of seat belts — in some form yet to be decided — because of his past willingness to lend his name to good causes.
Jones was not wearing a seat belt when his Lincoln Town Car left the H-1 Freeway, traveled 78 feet on the side of the road and collided with a concrete pillar. His head went around the car’s airbags and smashed into the windshield.
Last year there were 36 fatal automobile accidents on O‘ahu. Twenty-six of the people who died were not wearing seat belts.
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