A 51-year-old man died yesterday after being struck by a dump truck while changing a tire on Mamalahoa Highway in North Kona.

Big Island police identified the man as Charles McCall of a Captain Cook address in South Kona.

Police said McCall was struck by a 1982 International dump truck driven by a 40-year-old Kailua-Kona man at 3:50 p.m. McCall died at Kona Community Hospital at 4:56 p.m. The fatality is the Big Island’s 33rd of the year.

Anyone who may have witnessed the incident is asked to call Officer Bradley Freitas at 326-4277 in Kona or Sgt. Leroy Victorino at 961-2332 in Hilo.

Sewage-fouled beaches reopen

Popular beaches from Point Panic to Sand Island to Ke'ehi Lagoon have reopened. The beaches were contaminated last week in one of the largest Honolulu sewage spills on record.

Initial estimates placed last Thursday night’s spill into Honolulu Harbor, Nu'uanu Stream and Kapalama Canal at 4.6 million gallons, but the state Health Department has since determined that it totaled 7.5 million gallons.