Updated at 5:06 p.m., Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Fatal wreck shuts down part of Pail Highway
Advertiser Staff
A 31-year-old motorcyclist was killed today in a collision involving two or three vehicles on Pali Highway in upper Nu'uanu, forcing the closure of a section of the roadway to afternoon Kailua-bound traffic.The accident was reported to police at 4:15 p.m.
Kailua-bound traffic was being rerouted onto Old Pali Road, police said.
The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:33 p.m.
The death is O'ahu's 58th traffic fatality of the year, and the seventh involving a motorcyclist.