Updated at 11:48 a.m., Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Sign waver hit by vehicle
Advertiser Staff
A 21-year-old La'ie man was critically injured yesterday when he was hit by a pickup truck and then a van while participating in an anti-drug roadside sign-waving campaign near Puakenikeni Road in Ka'a'awa.Daniel Mapu, a former Kahuku High football player, was with about 20 people waving anti-drug signs when a Kahuku-bound white pickup truck veered off Kamehameha Highway and onto the roadway shoulder at 5:30 p.m.
Mapu and another La'ie man, 21, were hit by the truck and the impact vaulted Mapu onto the highway, where he was hit again by a Kane'ohe-bound van.
Mapu was taken to Castle Medical Center in critical condition with head and body injuries. The second injured man was treated for a foot injury at the scene and released.
A Honolulu man, 36, who was driving the pickup truck and the van’s driver — an Arizona man, 22 — were not seriously injured, police said.
