Posted at 2:38 p.m., Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Big Island woman hit by van dies
Advertiser Staff
HILO, Hawai'i — An 83-year-old woman died yesterday from injuries she suffered when she was hit by a van last week in North Kohala.Big Island police said Dolores Bartolome of Hala'ula was walking west across Akoni Pule Highway near the 24-mile marker shortly before 8:50 p.m. Nov. 7 when she was struck by a northbound 1996 Nissan Quest. Bartolome was not in a crosswalk, police said.
The woman was taken to the North Hawai'i Community Hospital and transferred to the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where she died at 2:50 a.m. yesterday.
The 48-year-old North Kohala woman who was driving the van was not injured.
Bartolome's death is the 32nd traffic fatality on the Big Island this year, compared to 37 a year ago.
