Posted on: Monday, April 11, 2005

Three victims in two traffic accidents identified

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

The 28-year-old man who was killed early Saturday morning by a wrong-way driver on the H-1 Freeway near Waipahu was identified yesterday by the medical examiner's office as Jeremy Villanueva of 'Aiea.

Also killed was Bradley Lopes, 33, of Waipahu, who was driving the 2000 Toyota pickup that was traveling west in the freeway's eastbound lanes. Lopes' truck crashed head-on into Villanueva's 1991 Toyota pickup at 12:16 a.m., about 1,320 feet west of the Military Road Overpass.

Police said Lopes may have entered the freeway in the wrong direction via the Paiwa Street off-ramp, mauka of Hans L'Orange Field.

"The impact was severe enough to turn (Villanueva's) truck around so it was facing the direction it was coming from," Waikele Fire Capt. Robert Moss said.

Villanueva was thrown from the truck. Three passengers in his truck — a 26-year-old woman, a 9-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy — were taken to The Queen's Medical Center.

The woman was critically injured and unconscious and had to be extracted from the truck by firefighters, Moss said.

The girl and the young boy did not appear to be seriously injured, police said.

A Mustang also was involved in the crash. Its driver, a 56-year-old woman, was taken to Queen's in fair condition.

The medical examiner's office yesterday also said William Kalilikane, 43, was the Wai'anae man struck and killed by a car Saturday on Farrington Highway near Tracks Beach.

Police said Kalilikane was standing at the trunk of his parked car, looking inside, when a car went off the roadway and hit him.

The driver of the car that hit him, a 26-year-old Wai'anae man, was taken to Queen's in serious condition.

Reach Rod Ohira at 535-8181 or rohira@honoluluadvertiser.com.