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Updated at 3:49 p.m., Sunday, June 17, 2007

Big Island fatal crash under investigation

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

Big Island traffic investigators suspect an Ahualoa man may have suffered a medical condition before crashing his pickup truck Saturday on Old Mamalahoa Highway and Kapuna Road.

An autopsy will be performed on Louis D. Vierra, 70.

Vierra's 1984 Toyota pickup ran off the right side of the roadway, struck an embankment, rolled back onto the road and struck a utility pole at about 9:04 a.m.

He was pronounced dead at North Hawai'i Community Hospital at 9:57 a.m.