Updated at 3:51 p.m., Monday, December 3, 2007
Motorcyclist, 27, killed in Wahiawa
Advertiser Staff
A 27-year-old Mililani-area man was killed last night when he lost control of his motorcycle while failing to negotiate a left turn on a wet road in Wahiawa.According to investigators with the Honolulu Police Department's Vehicular Homicide division, the victim was traveling east on Wikao Street when he failed to negotiate a curve in the road. Investigators said the victim drifted across the road, hit the south curb and was thrown from his blue 2005 Kawasaki motorcycle, landing on the road. He was wearing a helmet but suffered injuries to his head and lower extremities.
An ambulance crew took him to Wahiawa General Hospital in critical condition, where he later died.
The fatality occurred at 95-524 Wikao Street at 9:36 p.m.
It is the 62nd traffic fatality on O'ahu this year compared to 86 over the same time span in 2006. It was also the 14th motorcycle fatality on O'ahu in 2007, all of them since March 21.
There were nine motorcyclists killed on O'ahu in 2006.
It is unknown if speed, drugs or alcohol were factors in the case, police said.
