Bus worker 'followed all procedures'
Advertiser Staff
O'ahu Transit Services is conducting an investigation into an accident in which a 59-year-old mechanic was killed Monday afternoon when the bus he was repairing in the Moanalua area rolled over him.
Alan T. Ishimaru, of Kuli'ou'ou, was working on the Route 31 Tripler line city bus, which had been taken out of service because of a mechanical problem, when the accident occurred near the intersection of Ala Mahamoe and Jarrett White Road, which leads to Tripler Army Medical Center. Parked on a hill, the bus rolled backward, fatally crushing Ishimaru and traveling through the intersection before smashing into a rock wall and stopping in front of a house.
Michelle Kennedy, spokeswoman for O'ahu Transit Services, said Ishimaru, who had been working on the bus with another mechanic, "followed all procedures, and this happened just as they were leaving to come back to the bus yard." She added, "It was just one of those unfortunate things."
Honolulu police are investigating the incident as a traffic fatality and have not opened a criminal investigation, police said.
Correction: The bus mechanic who was killed Monday was repairing a bus on the Route 31 Tripler line. The route number was wrong in a previous version of this story.
