By Dean Sensui, Star-Bulletin
Grant Yamashiro, a resident of the home, looks at
the damaged caused by last night's crash.
Both were taken to Queen's Hospital where the man was listed today in critical condition. The infant, who celebrated her first birthday last month, is in guarded condition.
The man, carrying his daughter, had just entered his residence at 87-636 Farrington Highway when a 1995 two-door Honda Accord driven by a 22-year-old Nanakuli man crashed through the door. Traffic investigator Sgt. Edward Kaida said the victim was struck from behind.
"The car went through the front door of the duplex and took out part of the wall," Kaida added.
A neighbor, who requested anonymity, said she heard a loud crash between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. "Then I heard a woman screaming, 'Where's the baby! Where's the baby!'"
Speed may have been a factor but not alcohol, police said.
Police said the driver of the car had been pursuing another vehicle heading toward Waianae on Farrington Highway following an earlier domestic incident at his Kaukai Road residence.
The man allegedly refused to let his former girlfriend leave the residence after she had gone there at 9 p.m. to pick up personal property.
The woman, 23, told police she talked her way out of the house after about 45 minutes.
She reportedly left with a male companion who was driving the woman's car.
Police said the suspect pursued the couple on Farrington Highway, driving in the far mauka lane alongside the woman's car when he apparently lost control of his vehicle, Kaida said.
The Honda veered off the shoulder of the road, clipped a utility pole, went through a 3-foot-high chain-link fence and crashed into the house.
Kaida estimated the distance between the roadway and entrance to the house at 25 to 30 feet.
The driver was not injured and has been arrested by police.
Traffic investigators are seeking negligent injury charges but that may change, possibly to manslaughter, if there is a death.
Detectives, meanwhile, are questioning the man for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend.
