The man, 23, is O'ahu's 34th traffic fatality of the year. Pedestrians have accounted for 12 of the 2007 total.

A second man, 20, remains in Queen's Intensive Care Unit in critical condition.

Police traffic investigation Sgt. Alan Vegas said the men ran from a vehicle stopped on Moanalua Freeway where an argument was occurring at about 11:30 p.m.

There were three men in the car, police said. The rear-seat passenger ran out of the car and was being chased the front-seat passenger.

The men were running north on the freeway's eastbound lanes when they were struck by a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier driven by a 66-year-old Pearl City man, said Vegas.