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A fluid spill on the 11th Avenue on-ramp this morning forced police to close the H-1 westbound entrance for nearly three hours as fire crews cleaned up the slippery mess. In the meantime, police diverted motorists to the 5th Avenue on-ramp. The spill was reported at 4:19 a.m. and the on-ramp was opened at 7:05 a.m. Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser

5 hurt as car veers off Kamehameha

A 21-year-old man and three boys were in fair condition at Queen's Medical Center, while another boy was released from Kahuku Hospital this morning after a one-car crash last night on the North Shore.

Police said a Honda Civic carrying five people failed to negotiate a bend in Kamehameha Highway and struck shrubs, a fence and a tree outside the Turtle Bay Hilton about 11 p.m.

Four people, including the 21-year-old driver, were flown by helicopter to Queen's.

Val Rabaino, a security officer at the Turtle Bay Hilton, said a colleague told her the car was traveling toward Sunset Beach. It appeared to have flipped, "went into a ditch and took out 25 feet of fence" bordering hotel property in front of the Links golf course, Rabaino said.

Police said the victims were from Wahiawa and Mililani and that the boys ranged in age from 13 to 15.

Speed was reported to have contributed to the crash.

Downtown man arrested in assault

Police have arrested a 52-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman last month.

Police said the two met June 24. The woman accepted a motorcycle ride and agreed to watch movies at the man's downtown residence.

At the home, she told police, she was sexually assaulted by the man, whom she spotted yesterday at Fort Street Mall.

She called police, who arrested him on suspicion of four counts of first-degree sexual assault and two counts of third-degree sexual assault.

Suspect arrested in Moanalua fight

Police arrested a 20-year-old yesterday whom they say chased three men with a cane knife in Moanalua.

The assailant got into an argument at 3:10 p.m. on Ala Lani Street about dating the mother of one of the victims, police said.

As the argument escalated, he grabbed a cane knife and chased the three men, who fled and called police, they said. The man was arrested on suspicion of three counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.

Arrest made in McCully robbery

Police have arrested two men, 18 and 24, in connection with a robbery Sunday in which a man was assaulted and his wallet stolen in McCully.

The 19-year-old victim was assaulted on Kalauokalani Way and suffered a cut lip and fracture to his right orbital bone.

Yesterday patrol officers saw two men in the same area and stopped them. They fled and were arrested as suspects in the second-degree robbery.