RONEN ZILBERMAN / RZILBERMAN@STARBULLETIN.COM A police officer took measurements at the site of an accident yesterday on Kamehameha Highway in Kaneohe. A 67-year-old Kaneohe woman died after her Volkswagen Golf appeared to cross the center line and collided head-on with a city bus.
3 accidents deal Oahu
a deadly weekendRescue workers use
the jaws of life to remove
a woman whose car hit a bus
Three unrelated car crashes in about 1 1/2 hours yesterday -- including one involving a city bus -- left three people dead.
The crashes, between 8:20 and 10 a.m., were spread among Kaneohe, Wahiawa and Nanakuli.
"It's a terrible day in Hawaii when you have two fatalities and one pending," Honolulu Police Department acting Lt. John Agno said yesterday morning.
A 67-year-old Kaneohe woman died after her Volkswagen Golf appeared to cross the center line on Kamehameha Highway in Kaneohe about 10 a.m. and collided head-on with a city bus, Agno said.
The car was heading north on a narrow portion of the highway at a curve, crossing a bridge just south of Heeia Kea Boat Harbor when it crossed the line, police said. Firefighters used the jaws of life to free the woman.
She may have suffered from a medical problem that contributed to the accident, Agno said. The car also was apparently going faster than the 25 mph speed limit, police said.
The woman was taken in extremely critical condition to Castle Medical Center, where she died, according to rescue and police officials.
Three passengers on the bus were taken to Castle with minor injuries, and the half-dozen others refused treatment. The bus driver was not injured.
In Wahiawa a 19-year-old woman died after the vehicle in which she was riding flipped over about 8:20 a.m. at the intersection of Makaweo Avenue and Manuia Street.
Police said a 71-year- old woman driving a sedan broadsided or clipped the sport utility vehicle in which the 19-year-old was a passenger. The SUV swerved and lost control, driving up a slight embankment and flipping onto its roof, police said.
The victim was taken in extremely critical condition to the Queen's Medical Center, where she died, authorities said. The 53-year-old driver was taken to the hospital but was not in critical condition, police said.
Police are not sure if the sedan stopped at the stop sign, Sgt. Paul Ledesma said. The 71-year-old woman was shaken but not injured, and taken to Wahiawa General Hospital.
In Nanakuli a van backing up at Tracks Beach near the Kahe Point Power Plant hit a man in his 80s, trapping him underneath and dragging him about 20 feet, police said.
The man was taken to St. Francis West Medical Center, then transported by air ambulance to the Queen's Medical Center in extremely critical condition. He died at the hospital later in the day.
