Updated at 8:18 a.m., Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Medical Examiner's office IDs pedestrian hit in Kapolei
Advertiser Staff
The city Department of the Medical Examiner has identified the man who was fatally injured while crossing a street near the Kapolei Business Park yesterday morning as Guoxuan Yang, 59, of Honolulu.Police said Yang was struck by a car at 6:12 a.m. while he was crossing busy Kalaeloa Boulevard in the pre-dawn darkness. Yang was rushed to The Queen's Medical Center where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
There are no crosswalks or street lights in the area where Yang was hit.
He was the sixth pedestrian to be killed in traffic incidents so far this year.
