An on-duty Honolulu police officer struck a pedestrian yesterday 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 Puna'a Street, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the Honolulu Emergency Services Department.

The vehicle that struck the pedestrian had apparently gone around the stopped bus, he said.

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 Kane'ohe direction of Oneawa, but could not say if the pedestrian was in the crosswalk when he was hit. She could not confirm that the officer 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.

Oneawa is a two-lane street and divided by a double yellow line at that section. Neighbors said the accident happened near a bus stop in front of the Church of the Nazarene, closer to Ho'oulu Street. A bus heading in the Kane'ohe direction and stopped at that bus stop would have the crosswalk behind the bus at the intersection of Ho'oulu and Oneawa.

There is a crosswalk at Puna'a and Oneawa, but there is no bus stop there.