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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

WINDWARD OAHU

Bicyclist hospitalized after being hit by car

A 24-year-old bicyclist was in critical condition yesterday with head wounds after being struck by a 1995 Toyota Tercel whose driver was trying to make a left turn.

The accident happened about 6:55 a.m. when the bicyclist, of Waimanalo, was traveling southbound on Alala Road.

Police said the Toyota's driver, a 49-year-old Kailua man, was headed northbound and hit the woman after trying to make a left turn near the intersection with Kaneapu Place.

The woman was initially taken to Castle Medical Center in serious condition but was later downgraded to critical and taken to the Queen's Medical Center.

HONOLULU

UH student injured in mo-ped accident

A 21-year-old University of Hawaii student was in critical condition yesterday after an early morning mo-ped accident on Round Top Drive, police said.

The woman was the passenger on a red 2003 mo-ped driven by a 20-year-old Honolulu man.

Police said the accident happened about 2:45 a.m. when the mo-ped was traveling south near the 8.5-mile marker and failed to make a hairpin turn.

The mo-ped struck a barrier wall, and the victim was thrown, striking her head on the roadway.

She was taken to the Queen's Medical Center in critical condition with head injuries.

Suspect arrested in Kalihi rampage

Police arrested a man who was found sleeping in a car in Kalihi Wednesday in connection with a rampage in Iwilei last week.

Police said the suspect, 38, was found in a vehicle parked near Umi and North King streets and later identified in a photographic lineup as the suspect in an incident along Kaaahi Street.

A man told police that at about 1:30 a.m. April 28, he saw the suspect trying to take something from a car owned by a another man. The owner of the car, 38, confronted the suspect, and the two began fighting, police said.

The suspect then allegedly went over to a black Mercury Cougar and grabbed a machete. Witnesses said he broke the windows on the victim's car with the machete, then went over to another car where the male witness and his girlfriend, 30, were sleeping inside. Police said the suspect broke the rear window on that car.

The suspect then drove off in the Mercury, scraping a utility pole and almost hitting a man and a woman. Police later recovered the car in the Dillingham area and learned that it had been stolen. Two of the male victims in this case were treated for minor abrasions at the Queen's Medical Center.

Police arrested the suspect for investigation of two counts of second-degree attempted murder, auto theft, first- and third-degree criminal property damage and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.