The crash at 895 Ho'omoana St. was reported to police at 4:04 a.m. The man, who was found slumped over in the front passenger seat of a white Honda Civic, died at Kapi 'olani Medical Center at Pali Momi at 5:07 a.m., said police vehicular homicide investigator Claire Lum Lee.

The driver fled the scene. The Civic had been reported stolen in Mililani on March 2, said Lum Lee.

Homeowner Francis Ching, 43, awoke to the familiar sound of a speeding vehicle on Waimano Home Road, seconds before the Civic plowed into his carport at about 4 a.m.

"I ran out of my room and see this guy climbing out of the (driver’s side) window," Ching said. "I told him, 'Stop, wait,’ and he said, 'My friend was driving and he’s hurt.’"

When Ching’s attention shifted to the passenger, the man slipped out of the carport. He was last seen by neighbors crossing Waimano Home Road and walking ewa on Ho'omo ana Street. Police have opened a failure-to-render-aid and second-degree negligent homicide investigation into the crash.

The injured man moved but was unresponsive, Ching said. "The firefighters came and got him out."

The driver was speeding makai-bound when he lost control of the car, which severed a traffic-signal pole in front of Ching’s corner-lot residence before crashing into the carport and the side of a parked orange pickup truck that Ching’s brother had given him last month.

A second car parked in the garage also was damaged.

"If it wasn’t for the truck being there, the guy would have hit my other car, and guaranteed he would have ended up in my house," Ching said.

He is thankful no one was injured in the house where he has lived with his girlfriend and parents for two years. The carport is near his invalid mother’s bedroom. "She was in bed and wouldn’t be able to move," Ching said.

"This happens all the time, practically every night," he said of the accelerating-engine sound of vehicles speeding on Waimano Home Road. "When I hear it, I wake up automatically. I always hope I don’t hear the sound of a crash at the end.

"But this time, the speeding sounded close ... and I heard the loud crash," Ching added.

It was O'ahu’s 17th traffic fatality of the year, compared with 17 on this date last year.

Police also were investigating a head-on collision today on Farrington Highway in Ma'ili that injured three people, none critically, and an alcohol-related crash on Kapi'olani Boulevard in which a car slammed into a surfboard shop.

Two of the three people injured in the head-on collision went to The Queen’s Medical Center; the other was taken to St. Francis Medical Center-West. The collision occurred between Ka'ukama Road and Ho'okele Street at 5:58 a.m.

At about 3:30 a.m. today, a car crashed into Clips surfboard shop at 1221 Kapi'olani Blvd.

No one was injured, but store manager Makoto Kambara said 20 surfboards, which retail for $500 apiece, were damaged. Police arrested several people in the car and recovered evidence of beer at the crash scene.