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Third man in crash dies on Big Island
HILO, Hawai'i — A third man has died as a result of a single-car crash Tuesday night on the Hawai'i Belt Road.
Robert McNair, 32, of Kailua, Kona, died yesterday morning at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Big Island police yesterday identified the two victims who died at Kona Community Hospital on the night of the crash as Zachary Reed, 21, of Kailua, Kona, and John Roth, 44, of Kaloa in North Kona.
Police said the accident was reported at 9:39 p.m. after the southbound car ran off the road near the 22 mile marker at Pu'uanahulu in North Kona, struck a rock embankment and overturned. Reed, the driver, was wearing a seat belt but the other two were thrown from the vehicle. Police are not certain whether they were wearing seat belts.
Anyone with information on the crash should call Traffic Enforcement Unit officer Bradley Freitas at (808) 326-4277 in Kona, Traffic Sgt. Leroy Victorino at (808) 961-2332 in Hilo, or the police nonemergency number at (808) 935-3311.
There have been 28 traffic deaths in Hawai'i County this year compared with 19 at the same time last year.
Man critical after motorcycle crash
A man was in critical condition last night after a motorcycle accident in Ka'a'awa, authorities said.
The man was hurt when the motorcycle he was riding crashed near the 7-Eleven on Kamehameha Highway. A store employee said the accident happened about 8:45 p.m.
Police, fire and emergency medical personnel were called to the scene shortly afterward.
The man was taken to Kahuku Hospital in what authorities described as "very critical" condition.
Traffic investigators worked late into the evening to try to determine the cause of the accident.
Police suspend search for woman
Police have suspended the search for 50-year-old Hoae Foster after searching for two days in the area around Keawa'ula Bay, also known as Yokohama Bay.
Wednesday's six-hour effort involved firefighters and water safety personnel, said officer Phil Camero of the Honolulu Police Department's missing persons detail. The effort involved both aerial and water searches, said Camero.
Foster was last seen on Oct. 2 and her car was found abandoned and parked on Monday at the Keawa'ula Bay beach park.
There is no evidence that foul play may be involved in her disappearance, Camero said.
Boy questioned in bicycling death
Police vehicular homicide investigators on Wednesday questioned the companion of a 13-year-old boy killed Monday in a traffic collision. The two boys were riding bicycles on Kalaniana'ole Highway near Waimanalo Elementary & Intermediate School.
Justin Kaliko Flores' bicycle veered off the raised sidewalk and into the roadway. The boy was struck by a car and later died at The Queen's Medical Center.
Witnesses told police the two boys were playing and slapping each other as they rode on the raised sidewalk on the mauka side of the roadway.
Sgt. John Agno, acting supervisor of the vehicular homicide unit, declined comment on what they learned from the boy. The boy was not arrested.
