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The tour bus that hit a female pedestrian was towed away Thursday as her body lay under a yellow tarp on Mahukona Street at Kona Street. Police investigated at the scene for several hours after the morning accident.
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A 65-year-old woman was struck and killed by a tour bus Thursday at the mauka-Diamond Head end of Ala Moana Center.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services said the woman was hit around
8:20 a.m. and pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Police said the bus was traveling east on Kona Street when it made a turn onto Mahukona Street and struck the woman while she was in the crosswalk.
The driver, 51, didn’t notice the bus had struck the woman until he was flagged down by a person, police said.
Police said alcohol and speed did not seem to be factors in the accident.
The bus was towed away from Mahukona Street by late Thursday morning.
“We are saddened by the accident that occurred this morning on Mahukona Street,” Francis Cofran, general manager of Ala Moana Center, said in a written statement Thursday afternoon.
“We extend our sincerest condolences to the family of the victim. Ala Moana Center is cooperating with the Honolulu Police Department as they continue their investigation.”
Yujiro Kuwabara, president of Travel Plaza Transportation, issued a similar statement offering condolences and saying the company was cooperating with HPD.
The company also said that the driver involved has been with TPT since April 2011 and has had a commercial driver’s license since 1984, with “no prior incidents on his record.”
TPT officials said the driver was on his way to pick up passengers at the Aqua Palms Waikiki at
9 a.m. There were no
passengers on the bus at the time of the accident.