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Posted at 11:34 a.m., Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Police find car used in hit-and-run fatality

Advertiser Staff

Police last night found a car at a Waipahu home that they believe was involved in a hit-and-run incident yesterday in Iwilei that resulted in the death of an 86-year-old Honolulu woman.

The city medical examiner's office identified the woman yesterday as Betty Santiago.

Santiago was crossing North Nimitz Highway at Sumner Street in a crosswalk about 10:22 a.m., police said. Vehicles in the right and middle lane stopped for Santiago but a driver in the middle lane went around the stopped vehicles and struck Santiago, police said. The suspect's four-door 2000 Dodge Stratus, with the license plate HZM 572, then fled on North Nimitz Highway in the 'ewa direction, police said.

The car was located about 9 p.m. yesterday, but as of 11:15 a.m. today, police were still trying to locate the car's registered owner and determine who was driving it at the time of the accident.