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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.