Posted on: Tuesday, June 7, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Accident closes part of Hilo road
Advertiser Staff
HILO, Hawai'i — A portion of Railroad Avenue in Hilo was closed yesterday after a mishap with a garbage truck caused three utility poles to snap.
Police were allowing traffic to get to the Hilo dump via Leilani Street, but motorists were not being allowed to turn onto Railroad Avenue. Police were uncertain late yesterday when the road would reopen.
The accident occurred about 12:55 p.m. when a driver for Pacific Waste Inc. left the back hatch up on his truck, police said. The vehicle was headed down Leilani Street and had turned left on Railroad Avenue when the hatch caught utility wires going across the road, snapping the poles in front of Meadow Gold Dairies and damaging five parked cars. No one was injured.
A public information meeting will be held tomorrow to discuss the city's application for a state noise-code variance to allow night work on its water and sewer project on Kapi'olani Boulevard.
The meeting will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at the McKinley High School cafeteria.
The $22 million joint project involves construction of a new water main and rehabilitation of an existing sewer main under Kapi'olani between Ward Avenue and Kalakaua Avenue. Some work also will be done on Kalakaua, Atkinson Drive and Kamake'e Street.
Work is scheduled to begin in January 2006 and finish in October 2007. The work is expected to disrupt traffic on Kapi'olani, and the city says allowing some work to be done at night will minimize the duration of that disruption.
The medical examiner's office yesterday identified a 31-year-old man who died Sunday at Wahiawa Hospital after being thrown from an all-terrain
vehicle at Army Beach in Mokule'ia as Emmanuel Pascual. The case has been classified by police as an unattended death.
Community group Malama o Manoa will sponsor a photo exhibit called "Recollections of Old Manoa" at 7 p.m. tomorrow at Manoa District Park's new gym multipurpose room.
The exhibit will include seldom-seen photos of old Manoa and is part of the celebration of Manoa Elementary School's 150th anniversary.
Meeting to cover Kapi'olani project
ATV accident victim identified
Photos of Manoa to be exhibited
