Posted on: Tuesday, February 4, 2003

Teen killed in Waimanalo crash identified

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

The medical examiner's office yesterday identified the girl who was hurled from a speeding pickup truck and killed Saturday night as Jamie Singleton, 17.

The 21-year-old man killed in the Waimanalo accident still has not been identified.

Six other people were injured when the Makapu'u-bound pickup truck swerved off Kalaniana'ole Highway at about 7 p.m., slammed into a concrete pillar and crashed into a utility pole.

Meanwhile, a 24-year-old Pearl Harbor man remained in critical condition yesterday at The Queen's Medical Center after a 2002 Toyota 4Runner veered off Moanalua Freeway near the Ala Kapuna Street overpass Sunday, went up an embankment and struck a tree. The man was a passenger in the car driven by a 19-year-old, who was in fair condition at Queen's.

Also Sunday, a man and a girl on a motorcycle were badly injured in a head-on collision at 8 p.m. on Hihimanu Street in Waimanalo. The driver, 26, who collided with a 1990 Nissan sedan, was in critical condition at Queen's. His passenger, 17, was in guarded condition.

Police closed Hihimanu Street to traffic until 4 a.m. yesterday to investigate.

Also, a 41-year-old woman who was struck by a car Friday while trying to cross Farrington Highway in Waipahu has been identified by the medical examiner's office as Corliss Okamoto. Vehicular homicide investigators said Okamoto was not in a crosswalk.