Updated at 3:44 p.m., Sunday, January 20, 2008
Army sergeant, 22, was Maui motorcycle crash victim
Advertiser Staff
Maui police have identified the motorcyclist killed yesterday morning in Ma'alaea as Army Sgt. Eric Rynearson, 22.Rynearson was thrown from his 2007 Suzuki GSXR on Ma'alaea Road, two-tenths of a mile north of Kapoli Street, after losing control of the motorcycle, which went off the roadway and crashed into a guardrail. Police were called at 12:30 a.m.
Rynearson was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said Rynearson was assigned to a recruiting office in Wailuku. His immediate family lives in Oregon, according to police.
The traffic fatality is Maui's first in 2008.
