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POSTED: Saturday, February 13, 2010

Sport utility vehicle runs over 1-year-old

A 1-year-old Pahoa girl was critically injured Thursday when she was run over by a sport utility vehicle in a driveway in the Hawaiian Shores subdivision in Puna, Big Island police said.

The girl was taken by fire rescue personnel to the Hilo Medical Center. She was in critical condition with internal injuries when she was flown to the Queen's Medical Center on Oahu.

A 35-year-old Keaau man who was visiting the home was backing up a 1995 Toyota SUV when he ran over the child with the SUV's left rear tire, police said. It was reported at 6:29 p.m. Thursday.

Police arrested the driver on suspicion of negligent injury, accidents involving death or serious bodily injury, no operator's license and no no-fault insurance.

After conferral with county prosecutors, police released the man pending further investigation.

 

Kauai man, 59, dies in crash with van

A 59 year-old Kalaheo man was killed Thursday morning after a van crossed the center line on Kaumualii Highway and crashed into the car he was driving, Kauai police said.

The victim was identified as Glenn Doi.

Police said a 61-year-old man was driving a Kauai Coffee delivery van when he crossed the center line near mile marker 10 and crashed head-on into an eastbound Ford Mustang driven by Doi. Doi's car was then rear-ended by an Infiniti, police said.

The drivers of the Infiniti and the van were treated and released from Wilcox Hospital.

This was Kauai's third traffic fatality of the year.

 

Thieves break into pair of stores at strip mall

Police are looking for suspects in a burglary yesterday morning at a Moanalua Road strip mall in which thieves broke through a wall to enter an ice cream parlor and take a safe and cash.

Burglars shattered a glass door at Grace's Inn, 98-820 Moanalua Road, in the 5 a.m. burglary, police said. They broke through the restaurant's wall to gain access to Dave's Hawaiian Ice Cream, police said.

At about noon, employees at Grace's Inn noticed a gas smell and called the Gas Co., police said. Gas Co. technicians found a low-pressure leak in a gas line belonging to Pearlridge Laundromat, said Stephanie Ackerman, Gas Co. spokeswoman.

A gas technician turned off the line, which “;wasn't posing a major threat,”; she said. Police said the gas leak was not related to the burglary.

 

Body of paddleboarder recovered off Big Island

Big Island firefighters recovered the body of a stand-up paddleboard surfer in Anaehoomalu Bay off Waikoloa on Thursday after witnesses saw him fall after catching a large wave.

The surfer was missing for about an hour when firefighters were called at 9:45 a.m. A helicopter search spotted the victim, and Fire Department personnel recovered the body about 100 yards offshore.