Updated at 11:19 p.m., Sunday, June 10, 2007
Visitor killed in head-on collision in Kihei
By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer
Maui traffic investigators identified the person killed as Jerry Killough, 68, of Oklahoma.
The collision occurred at 4:52 p.m.
Killough was driving a Ford sedan toward Makena when a Nissan pickup truck headed in the opposite direction toward Ma'alaea crossed the center line, striking the sedan head-on.
Three people in the sedan were taken to Maui Memorial with non-critical injuries, police said. A woman passenger, 20, in the pickup truck also suffered non-lifethreatening injuries and was taken to Maui Memorial.
A 4-month-old infant in the pickup truck suffered critical injuries and was medevaced to Honolulu. The child was in a car seat and not thrown from the truck, police said.
The driver of the truck, a 22-year-old Wailuku man, escaped serious injury.
The death is Maui's 11th traffic fatality of the year and seventh in the last 37 days.
