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Posted at 11:59 a.m., Thursday, July 1, 2004

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

A woman driving a Saturn and a man and his son in a Volvo escaped injury in a head-on collision today.

Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser

Three escape injury in crash

Two cars collided head-on at about 9:15 a..m. today in front of 2278 Citron St. in Mo'ili'ili.

A woman driving a Saturn veered into the path of a Volvo, driven by a man who was taking his 4-year-old son to school, police said.

No one was seriously injured.

Navy man hurt in crash dies

A 21-year-old Navy man died early today at The Queen's Medical Center after he was injured in a motorcycle crash last night on Nimitz Highway, seven-tenths of a mile east of the Hickam Air Force Base main gate.

The man was assigned to a submarine at Pearl Harbor, according to Navy officials. The medical examiner's office said it could not release the victim's name until his identity is confirmed.

Police said the man was speeding when his 2000 Honda motorcycle hit a guardrail at 6:35 p.m. The rider, who was wearing a helmet, was thrown from the motorcycle and suffered leg and internal injuries.

He died at Queen's at 12:52 a.m. today.

The death is O'ahu's 34th traffic fatality of the year, compared with 41 on the same date in 2003.

Police Lt. Bennett Martin confirmed today that two deaths from separate crashes have been reclassified as non-traffic fatalities because autopsies determined the deaths of Lawrence Nihipali on May 4 on the H-1 Freeway near the Waikele off-ramp and Yolanda DeCosta on June 4 at North Kukui and Maunakea streets were caused by medical conditions.

Fingerprints to help ID victim

Big Island police today will use fingerprints to try and identify a man who died after a car crash yesterday on Saddle Road in South Hilo.

Traffic investigators said the man was the only occupant in a Subaru station wagon traveling west on Saddle Road that veered off the roadway and flipped over at 11:46 a.m.

The station wagon landed more than 200 feet from the road, seven-tenths of a mile west of the 10-mile marker.

The man died at Hilo Medical Center at 1:47 p.m. The death is the Big Island's 23rd traffic fatality of the year compared with 15 on the same date in 2003.