Hawai'i Police are looking for a 41-year-old Hilo man believed to have been driving a Dodge pickup truck involved in the accident.

Police responded at 12:11 a.m. today to reports of road rage on Highway 190, involving two vehicles traveling north toward Waimea.

Shortly afterward police received a report that two vehicles had collided on the highway near the 16-mile marker in the Pu'uanahulu area. Upon arrival, police found an "extensively damaged" small car off the mauka shoulder of the road and the Dodge pickup truck off the makai shoulder.

Two Hilo women, ages 26 and 35, who apparently had been ejected from the car, were found at the scene. Neither had any vital signs. They were pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital at 7:15 a.m.

A third woman who was also in the car was taken to North Hawai'i Community Hospital by an unknown motorist and treated for injuries suffered in the accident, police said. She was released from the hospital this afternoon, said Detective Mark Haggerty of the Kona Police Station.

The names of the women were not immediately released since family members had not been notified, Haggerty said.

He also said that police are not clear on the circumstances leading up to the accident. But based on phone calls police received shortly before the collision, it has been classified as a case of road rage.

The accident closed Highway 190 until about 8 a.m. this morniing.

Anyone with information about the accident is asked to call Haggerty at (808) 326-4646 , extension 277, or the non-emergency telephone number at (808) 935-3311.