Updated at 8:35 p.m., Sunday, November 12, 2006
Man, 33, killed in Kaua'i crash
Advertiser Staff
One man was killed and another injured in a head-on crash in Lihue yesterday, according to Kaua'i police.Killed in the 5:50 p.m. crash was a 33-year-old Lihue man who was a passenger in a Geo Prizm traveling southbound on Rice Street between the entrance to the Kaua'i Marriott Resort and Beach Club and the Makoi Street junction.
The driver of the Geo Prizm was first taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital and later flown to The Queen's Medical Center on O'ahu.
The driver of the northbound vehicle, a Ford pickup, was treated and released.
A female passenger in the pickup was seriously injured and has undergone surgery at Wilcox Memorial Hospital, police said.
