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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 7:19 p.m., Thursday, May 22, 2008

Palisades traffic fatality victim identified

Advertiser Staff

The Honolulu medical examiner's office identified the man killed Tuesday in a single-car crash in Pacific Palisades as Yoshio Tamashiro, 82.

Cause and manner of death was listed as blunt force injuries of the chest due to a accidental motor vehicle collision.

Tamashiro was alone in a 1994 Mercury Sable which apparently rolled downhill from the driveway of his Pacific Palisades home without power, making it difficult for him to steer or brake. The car went onto a grass shoulder at 'Auhuhu Street near Komo Mai Drive and struck a utility pole at 12:57 p.m.

Tamashiro died at Kapi'olani Medical Center at Pali Momi at 1:43 p.m.