A man was critically injured early today when he was thrown from a car that crashed into a guardrail on the Kahuapa'ani Street overpass in Halawa, overturned and slid down the roadway upside down.

The injured man was the front-seat passenger in the car, which police said was speeding.

The accident was reported to police at 5:07 a.m.

The driver of the car left the scene and was found nearby using a cell phone. The driver may be arrested for failing to render aid, police said.

Autopsy conducted on teen who fell from hotel

An autopsy is being done today on a 18-year-old cheerleader from New Jersery who apparently fell to her death from a ninth-floor balcony at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort.

Lauren Crossan, a senior at Randolph High School, was visiting Maui to perform at Saturday's Hula Bowl all-star college football game.

A hotel guest found her body yesterday morning below the Hyatt's Lahaina Tower and police were summoned at 7:46 a.m.

Acting Lt. Tivoli Faaumu of the Maui Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division said Crossan was in contact with a chaperone at 1:30 a.m., and later went to a room occupied by two California men, aged 19 and 20, who she had just met.

The men reported that Crossan was in the room when they fell asleep, and that they had no idea she may have fallen off their balcony until police came knocking on their door later in the morning.

Tivoli said it appears that no foul play was involved in the incident, although the death is still under investigation.

"It's very sad. We really don't know what happened at this point," he said.

Crossan was part of a 200-member National Cheerleaders Association squad that is on a weeklong Maui trip. The group is scheduled to perform at the Hula Bowl halftime at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku.

Motorcyclist identified

The medical examiner's office today identified the soldier killed in a motorcycle crash Sunday in Royal Kunia as Chad W. Parker, 26.

Parker, who served with the 25th Infantry Division (Light), has been scheduled for deployment to Afghanistan, said Schofield Barracks spokeswoman Patricia Simoes.

Parker was on a motorcycle that failed to make a curve on 'Anonui Street, slid across the roadway near Puia Street and over a curb before crashing into a hollow-tile wall. Parker and another Army man, 19, were ejected when the motorcycle hit the wall.

Parker was pronounced dead at the scene. The other man is at The Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition, police said.

Mililani arrest in molestation case

Honolulu police yesterday arrested a Mililani man on an extradition warrant charging him with child molestation. Jimmy Roney, 63, of a Noholoa Court address, was arrested at 650 S. King St.

Honolulu police Det. Bayard Doane said the extradition warrant for Roney is from the Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff's department. The alleged molestation offense occurred more than 20 years ago, said Doane.

An extradition hearing was scheduled for this afternoon before Circuit Judge Marcia Waldorf.

Pa'uwela search goes on for girl

PA'UWELA, Maui — Rescue crews today continued searching for a 15-year-old girl who was reported missing at the Pa'uwela lighthouse over the weekend.

Friends who were with the girl at the lighthouse on Maui’s rugged northeast coast said she went to get a cigarette at 11:30 p.m. Saturday and never returned, according to police.

On the likelihood she may have fallen off the cliffs near the lighthouse, helicopter, personal watercraft, dive and ground searches focused on the ocean and the shoreline yesterday. The search began at around 12:40 a.m. Sunday.