Three killed, one hurt in multiple accidents
By Vicki Viotti and Mike Gordon
Advertiser Staff Writers
Three people were killed and one was seriously injured in three separate traffic accidents yesterday.
Richard Ambo • The Honolulu Advertiser
In the first accident, at 5:35 a.m., a 43-year-old woman was killed when she was struck by a pickup on Kalaniana'ole Highway in Waimanalo.
Honolulu Police Department traffic investigators mark evidence points on Kalaniana'ole Highway in Waimanalo where a woman was fatally struck by a pickup yesterday.
Police also were called at 10 a.m. to an accident on North King Street at the Kapalama post office in which an elderly couple was killed.
They were driving a light blue Honda Civic four-door sedan, which crashed into a wall on the diamondhead end of the post office parking lot.
The man was not wearing a seat belt, but the woman was, said traffic investigator Sgt. William Baldwin.
A witness told police that the couple appeared to be arguing, but that has not been confirmed.
The man, 80, was taken to The Queen's Medical Center and the woman, 81, was taken to Kuakini Medical Center; they both died.
Baldwin asked anyone who witnessed the accident to call him at 529-3136 or 529-3527.
At 10:23 a.m., a moped rider was injured in an accident in the makai-bound lanes of Likelike Highway, near Kalihi Street. The woman, 43, was taken in critical condition to Queen's, where her condition later was upgraded to guarded.
Baldwin said the Waimanalo accident happened when the victim, a Waimanalo resident, tried to cross the highway, starting from the mauka shoulder. She was crossing between the Pu'uone and 'Olu'olu street intersections and was not in a crosswalk.
A 1998 Ford pickup truck heading toward Makapu'u, driven by a 56-year-old Waimanalo woman, struck the victim. The victim was taken to Castle Medical Center, where she died.
Police were investigating whether speed was a factor in the accident.
Makapu'u-bound traffic was diverted around the accident on 'Olu'olu and Pu'uone streets.
