Updated at 6:58 p.m., Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Pedestrian fatality was 'Aiea man, 23
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
An autopsy today listed cause of death as cranial cerebral injury.
According to police, Matavao was one of three men arguing in a car that had stopped on the Moanalua Freeway east of the Ahua Street overpass in Mapunapuna at 11:30 p.m.
The rear-seat passenger left the car and began crossing the freeway. The front-seat passenger was chasing him, police said.
Both men were struck by a Chevrolet Cavalier driven by a 66-year-old Pearl City man.
The other pedestrian, a 20-year-old man, was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with critical injuries and is still hospitalized.
Matavao is O'ahu's 12th pedestrian fatality of the year but the first since April 22. The island's total fatality count stands at 34.
