Updated at 8:52 p.m., Saturday, April 7, 2007
Motorcyclist killed Friday on H-1 identified
Advertiser Staff
A motorcyclist killed in an accident on the H-1 Freeway has been identified as 45-year-old Blaise Villa of Honolulu, according to the Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office.Villa was driving a 2005 Harley Davidson motorcycle Friday evening when he was struck by a car driven by a 49-year-old Honolulu man.
Both were in the same lane when the car began to switch lanes to the left, then suddenly veered back to the right and hit Villa, police said. The motorcycle then hit an embankment and a tree.
The death was the 27th traffic fatality of the year on O'ahu, compared with 24 at the same time last year.
