Nanakuli Crash Claims Mans Life

 

The Nanakuli car crash claimed the life of one man and sent another man to the hospital in critical condition.

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LEEWARD OAHU

3-car crash leaves 36-year-old dead

A three-car crash yesterday on Farrington Highway killed a 36-year-old man and critically injured an 18-year-old man in Nanakuli, Honolulu police said.

The man who died was driving a 1994 Toyota sedan eastbound at 6:54 a.m., just past Laumania Avenue, when an oncoming 1985 Buick sedan crossed the center line and slammed into him, police said.

The Toyota was thrown into the outer eastbound lane and hit a 2005 Chevy sedan with three occupants.

The driver of the Toyota died at the scene.

The 18-year-old man driving the Buick was taken to the Queen's Medical Center in critical condition.

The 72-year-old woman driving the Chevy and another woman in the front seat were taken to Queen's in serious condition. A man in the back seat was not hurt.

Police said the Buick did not have airbags, but airbags deployed in the two other cars.

Police did not know whether anyone was wearing a seat belt.

The crash was Oahu's seventh traffic fatality this year compared with eight at this time last year.

HONOLULU

Suspect arrested in brawl in Aiea

A 19-year-old man was arrested yesterday after allegedly assaulting another man during an early morning brawl at the Stadium Mall in Aiea.

Police said that at about 1:40 a.m. a 31-year-old man was leaving the drive-through at Jack in the Box as a large fight broke out in the area between the restaurant and Brandy's Bar & Grill on Salt Lake Boulevard.

The 19-year-old man confronted the driver and punched him through his open car window, police said. Then he grabbed a pipe from his own car and struck the victim's car as he was trying to leave, police said.

Police stopped the suspect on the H-3 freeway onramp near Kahuapaani Street. He was booked on suspicion of first-degree unauthorized entry of a vehicle and third-degree criminal property damage.

Mother accused of burning children

Authorities charged a 28-year-old woman yesterday for allegedly punishing her children by burning them with a hot iron.

Police said a teacher at Kuhio Park Terrace noticed burn marks on two siblings, a 6-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother. The children said their mother had burned them with an iron for not going to sleep.

The mother arrived at her children's school and was arrested. Police said she was charged with two counts of second-degree assault yesterday and was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

CENTRAL OAHU

Fire blamed on kid playing with lighter

Honolulu Fire Department investigators determined that a child playing with a lighter caused a fire in Waipio Acres that left 15 people homeless, a spokesman said in an e-mail.

The fire Thursday afternoon at 95-125 Waimakua Drive began in the living room in the back of seven-bedroom single-story home, according to fire Capt. Terry Seelig.

The fire caused an estimated $450,000 in damage. One woman suffered a minor burn to her forearm. The Red Cross was assisting the family displaced by the fire.