Posted at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 5, 2001
H-2 comes to standstill after fatal accident
Advertiser Staff
A woman was killed in a head-on collision this afternoon on the H-2 freeway, just before the Mililani exit ramp. The collision occurred about 2:45 p.m. when the vehicle being driven toward Wahiawa by the woman crossed a landscaped divider and crashed into a white van headed in the opposite direction.
A third vehicle then slid into the wreckage.
Police said the woman was "fiftyish" and that the accident was possibly weather-related.
The town-bound H-2 was closed as police investigated, and traffic slowed to a crawl on the other lanes. Rush-hour traffic was slowed even further by a minor accident that narrowed the outbound H-2 to one lane. At 5 p.m., traffic was backed up at least a mile.
