A 38-year-old man was killed today in a tree-cutting accident at a Heno Place residence in Ahuimanu.

The man reportedly fell and a section of the tree he was cutting landed on him at 9:36 a.m. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Kunia car crash victim identified

The medical examiner's office today identified a man killed in a car crash Thursday on Kunia Road as Scott D. Miller, 24.

Driver who hit utility pole dies

A 41-year-old Puna man who struck a utility pole in an auto accident last week died of his injuries over the weekend, police said.

Boye Paradis, of the Nanawale Estates subdivision, died at The Queen's Medical Center shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Paradise was injured at about 9 p.m. Thursday when his northbound 1987 Honda Accord veered off the Volcano Highway near Mountain View and crashed into a utility pole.

Paradis suffered severe head injuries, and was flown to Queen's in Honolulu.

Investigators said it appeared that Paradis was not wearing his seat belt and that alcohol and speed may have been factors in the crash.

Police are continuing their investigation into the accident, which was the Big Island's second traffic fatality of the year.

Motorist safe after plunge

A Kaua'i woman rescued nine hours after her car plunged off Waimea Canyon Road and landed in a tree was reported in fair condition yesterday at The Queen's Medical Center on O'ahu.

No one saw the 42-year-old Po'ipu woman go over; the site is not one where people normally stop to look out on the canyon.