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Updated at 6:43 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2007

41 die on Hawai'i roads so far this year

By Rod Ohira
Advertiser Staff Writer

Forty-one people have been killed on hawai'i roads during the first 79 days of 2007, according to data compiled by The Advertiser.

Accidents in which two people died in each of three separate crashes involving speed and/or recklessness accounted for one-quarter of O'ahu's state-leading total of 24 fatalities — two more than the year-to-date count by this day in 2006.

There have been 10 pedestrian fatalities on O'ahu this year.

The Big Island follows with 12 fatalities as of Wednesday — the same year-to-date count as in 2006 — while Maui and Kaua'i have three and two fatalities, respectively. Maui had four at this time last year. Kaua'i had two.