Updated at 4:23 p.m., Thursday, October 19, 2006
On-duty officer hits man who got off bus
Advertiser Staff
An on-duty Honolulu police officer struck a pedestrian this morning in Kailua after he apparently drove around a city bus on Oneawa Street, authorities said.The officer, a 13-year veteran of the force, was driving his department-subsidized vehicle at the time of the 6:50 a.m. incident, said police spokeswoman Michelle Yu.
The pedestrian, a 43-year-old Kailua man, had just gotten off the bus at the intersection of Oneawa and Punaa Street, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the Honolulu Emergency Services Deparmtent.
The vehicle that struck the pedestrian had apparently gone around the stopped bus, he said. Oneawa is a two-lane street and divided by a double yellow line at that section.
The pedestrian was taken by ambulance in serious but stable condition to The Queen's Medical Center, Cheplic said.
Yu said the officer was driving in the Kaneohe direction of Onewa but could not say if the pedestrian was in the cross walk when he was hit. She could not confirm that he had driven around a stopped bus. Yu said traffic investigators and Internal Affairs Division personnel went to the scene. Yu would not confirm the identity of the officer.
