City Deputy Prosecutor Vickie Kapp told Circuit Judge Derrick Chan that witnesses estimated Ceriaco Kasoga was traveling at least 75 mph and was passing other vehicles on a curve near Waiamea Bay Beach Park when the Dodge Caravan he was driving crashed head-on into a Honda Accord carrying Saydee Miller, who was riding in a child restraint in the right front passenger seat.

Kapp told Chan that Kasoga had several speeding tickets prior to the fatal collision and that blood sample taken from him after the incident showed a blood-alcohol content level of .11.

Under Hawai'i law a person is considered to be driving drunk if their blood alcohol reading measures .08 or more.

Chan set bail at $50,000, as requested by Kapp, and issued a bench warrant for Kasoga's arrest. He could not be reached to comment on the matter.

Saydee's grandmother, Rhonda Teixeira, who was 38 at the time of the crash, was driving toward Haleiwa when the crash occurred.

Both were flown by helicopter to The Queen's Medical Center, as was the van driver.

Darin Awong, Saydee's grandfather and Teixeira's ex-husband, said a few days after the crash that his granddaughter never emerged from a coma and died after being taken off life support equipment.

His ex-wife suffered cuts and bruises and a broken sternum, but was released from the hospital three days after the crash.