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Woman dies in freak accident

A 75-year-old Kane'ohe woman died in a freak accident yesterday in the parking lot of Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center.

Police traffic investigators said the woman, who was driving a 1994 Subaru, stopped at the parking lot ticket booth. She dropped her ticket, but after reaching down and picking it up, her car suddenly shot forward across the parking lot and slammed into a retaining wall.

Honolulu firefighters removed her from the car and she was taken to the Kaiser emergency room, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

She is the 58th traffic fatality for the year. There were 47 by the same date last year.

Pedestrian's leg nearly severed

An 80-year-old Mililani man was airlifted to The Queen's Medical Center with a nearly severed leg after he was hit by a truck while crossing the street, police said.

The victim was in the crosswalk headed north on Kamaio Street when he was hit by a 1999 Chevy pickup truck whose driver was turning right onto Meheula Parkway, police said.

The 47-year-old driver of the truck, a Mililani woman, was not injured.