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Posted at 9:27 a.m., Monday, March 27, 2006

HECO crew finds dead body in crashed car

Advertiser Staff

Police vehicular homicide investigators this morning were investigating what appears to be a fatal traffic accident at a site off Kunia Road near the Kunia Store.

A Hawaiian Electric Co. repair crew that had been sent to investigate a report of a power failure in Mililani discovered the body of a man, who appeared to be in the military, at about 4 a.m. today inside a compact Ford car that was in a ditch beside a pineapple field.

Police said it appeared the driver hit a utility pole and that his car then veered toward the field.

Traffic investigators were still at the site as of 8 a.m. and the car had not been retrieved yet from the ditch.

Police said continuing rain and muddy conditions are hampering efforts to remove the car.