Posted on: Sunday, August 1, 2004

Pedestrian dies in highway accident

By Will Hoover
Advertiser Staff Writer

A 41-year-old man was struck and killed as he tried to walk across Kamehameha Highway at Helemano Plantation in the rain early yesterday morning, according to Honolulu police.

The pedestrian, who suffered serious head injuries and a broken leg, was flown to The Queen's Medical Center, where he died.

The accident happened about two miles west of Pa'ala'a Uka Pupukea Road at 64-1510 Kamehameha Highway, when the pedestrian was hit by a white 2001 Honda Civic traveling west.

The man was walking south across the rain-soaked highway in a location that had no lighting or crosswalk, police said.

According to police, a witness who was driving east spotted the man in the middle of the highway at around 1:30 a.m. and attempted to alert the westbound car by flashing his lights. The pedestrian apparently saw the flashing lights and backed into the path of the Honda, they said.

Neither the 30-year-old Hale'iwa man driving the Honda nor his 17-year-old passenger were injured. Police said the Honda was not speeding, and alcohol was not a factor. It had not been determined if the pedestrian had been drinking, police said.

Reach Will Hoover at 525-8038 or at whoover@honoluluadvertiser.com.