1 week Ago By The Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A 75-year-old Kailua-Kona man was in critical condition after crashing his vehicle in North Kona early this morning. Hawaii island police received a call at 1 :19 a.m.
reporting a single-vehicle crash on Old Mamalahoa Highway. Responding officers determined that a 2009 Nissan Frontier pickup truck was traveling north on the highway near the 17-mile-marker when it crossed the double-solid yellow lines, ran off the road, re-entered the highway, then struck a rock embankment and overturned. The man “sustained life-threatening injuries and was transported to Queen’s North Hawaii Community Hospital for immediate medical treatment, ” police said in a news release.
He was later airlifted to the Queens Medical Center on Oahu where he remained in critical condition today, they said. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, according to police. Witnesses to the crash are asked to contact Officer Dayson Taniguchi at (808 ) 326-4646, ext.
229, or at dayson.taniguchi @hawaiicounty.gov.
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