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Posted at 6:34 p.m., Sunday, September 10, 2006

Big Island man dies after car wreck

Advertiser Staff

A Big Island man died today from injuries he suffered in a one-vehicle crash Saturday on Hawai'i Belt Road (Route 11) just south of the 54-mile marker in the Ka'u district, police said.

The 68-year-old man from Hawaiian Ocean View Estates was a passenger in a 1979 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by another Hawaiian Ocean View Estates man heading south on Route 11. The truck ran off the right shoulder of the road, hit a culvert and overturned at about 11:25 a.m., police said.

The 64-year-old driver was treated and released at Ka'u Hospital but the passenger died at Kona Community Hospital at 3:46 a.m. today.

Speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors. The vehicle did not appear to have seat belts, police said.