A truck driver was critically injured today when his tractor-trailer carrying a load of gravel overturned on Pali Highway near Puiwa Road.

The accident was reported at 11:45 a.m. and Pali Highway was closed in both directions. Traffic was being turned around on Laimi Road.

The driver was taken to The Queen’s Medical Center.


Tips sought on runaway girl

Missing Child Center-Hawai'i is asking the public's help in locating a teenage girl who ran away from her Wahiawa home in May.

Gliselle Morales, 16, has been missing from her Wahiawa home since May 7.

Gliselle Morales ran away from home May 7, just days before her 16th birthday.

She was a ninth-grader at Leilehua High School when she ran away. She was a good student who earned A's and B's, her mother said. Morales is 4 feet 11 inches tall and 112 pounds.

The girl is thought to be on O'ahu, because she has called her mother several times. Her family believes she may be under the influence of a 26-year-old man.

Renette Parker, interim coordinator for Missing Child Center-Hawai'i, said the case has come to a dead end. Without the public's help, she is not sure what else can be done to locate the teenager. She said police have no clues to work with.

If you have information, call Missing Child Center-Hawai'i at 586-1449.

Arrest results in stolen police car

A police officer had his patrol car stolen today while arresting a suspected auto thief.

The incident occurred at 2:34 a.m. in Salt Lake after the officer stopped a Honda sedan that was stolen. Three boys fled from the stolen car in different directions. One of them circled back toward the officer’s blue-and-white 1997 Ford Crown parked in front of 932 Ala Liliko'i and drove off.

There were no weapons in the patrol car, police said.

The officer, meanwhile, captured one of the boys. The 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of auto theft.

An anonymous tip led to the recovery the police car which was found abandoned in the brush near 'Anonui Street in Royal Kunia at 7:30 a.m.