Traffic investigators said the man was speeding southbound on Meheula just after midnight, in a 2005 Mazda with paper dealer plates, trying to elude patrol officers who were following him when he lost control of his car near Kuahelani Avenue, went onto the grassy medial strip and slammed into a tree.

The driver was declared dead at the scene. Debris from his car flew into the oncoming lane and struck a 2003 BMW sedan that was being driven by a 28-year-old woman from Wahiawa. She was not injured.

Police said speed was a factor in the this morning's fatal accident which was the 30th of the year compared with 29 at this time last year.

Stabbing leaves one dead, another injured

One man was killed and another was seriously injured after they were stabbed sometime before 9:30 p.m. yesterday on Okana Road in 'Ahuimanu.

A woman told police she dropped off her adult son about 9 p.m. near 47-031 Okana Road and returned a short time later to pick him up.

The woman said she found her son's friend slumped over in the cab of a pickup truck and moments later found her son bleeding from a stab wound to his thigh.

The woman took her son to the Kane'ohe fire station and he was transferred from there to Castle Medical Center, police said.

The injured survivor was not cooperating with investigators and was refusing to say what led to the stabbing, police said.