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Updated at 11:35 p.m., Friday, March 9, 2007

1 killed, 2 hurt in Nanakuli head-on crash

Advertiser Staff

A 38-year-old Nanakuli man was killed and two other people injured tonight in a head-on crash on Farrington Highway in Nanakuli.

The driver of a pickup truck was pronounced dead at the scene, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city Department of Emergency Services.

A 40-year-old woman and a 9-year-old boy in the pickup were taken to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition, Cheplic said.

Fire Capt. Terry Seelig said a Makaha-bound City and County cherry-picker-type truck with a boom and basket collided with a pickup truck that was Honolulu-bound on Farrington Highway near Princess Kahanu Avenue.

Police Sgt. Lorenzo Ridela said it had been raining heavily and that the city truck spun out of control and into the path of the pickup truck.

"I'm pretty sure that rain played a factor," Ridela said.

It was reported to 911 just before 8:30 p.m.