POLICE BEAT
Vehicle involved in hit-run sought
Advertiser Staff
The CrimeStoppers program and the Honolulu Police Department are asking for the public's help in finding a vehicle involved in a pedestrian fatality.
About 7 p.m. Sunday, a pickup truck traveling toward La'ie on Kamehameha Highway struck an 80-year-old man in a crosswalk fronting Kahuku Sugar Mill. The truck made a U-turn and was last seen headed toward the North Shore.
A witness described the driver of the vehicle as a man in his 20s, 6 feet tall, about 220 pounds and having a husky build, short hair, brown eyes, a brown complexion and wearing a tank top.
Police were looking for a four-door, dark quad-cab pickup, possibly a Dodge Dakota.
Anyone with information about this person is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on your cellular telephone.
It was one of three fatal pedestrian accidents on O'ahu over the weekend.
MAN HURT WHEN CAR SLIPS OFF JACK
A 44-year-old Waialua man was injured yesterday morning when the car he was working on slipped off a jack about 8:50 a.m. and rolled over him.
Donnie Gates, assistant chief of the city Emergency Medical Services division, said the man was in extremely serious condition when a paramedic team from Waialua arrived at a home on Akule Street about 9 a.m.
The injured man was transported by Army helicopter to The Queen's Medical Center where his condition improved and he was later listed as stable.
