The Honolulu medical examiner's office yesterday notified police vehicular homicide investigators of the death of a woman injured in a crash last month off Pali Highway.

The medical examiner's office today identified the woman as Harriet Gilbertson, 87, of Ka'a'awa and listed cause and manner of death as multiple organ failure due to multiple injuries from a single-car accident.

Gilbertson was injured Feb. 5 and taken in serious condition to The Queen's Medical Center, where she died Feb. 24 at 4:45 a.m., vehicular homicide investigator Sgt. John Agno said.

Gilbertson was speeding in a 1996 Chrysler Cirrus on a wet access road, 96 feet north of Pali Highway, in rainy weather at 2 p.m. when she crashed her car, Agno said. The vehicle burst into flames but witnesses managed to pull the woman out of the car, added Agno.

The death is O'ahu's eighth traffic fatality of 2008, nine less than last year on the same date.

Twenty-five people have been killed on Hawai'i's roadways this year as compared to 29 at this time last year.

The 2008 breakdown as of today: