Speed a factor in motorcyclist’s fatal crash
Police said excessive speed may have contributed to a crash that killed a motorcyclist on the H-1 freeway near Palama on Sunday night.
Traffic investigators said a 51-year-old Aiea man was operating a 1994 Suzuki Intruder motorcycle in the Waianae-bound lanes of the freeway when it veered into the path of a 2003 Lincoln Navigator and the vehicles collided, causing the motorcycle to fall.
The collision happened at about 8:50 p.m., two-tenths of a mile west of the Palama Street offramp.
The motorcycle driver suffered massive head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. He was not wearing a helmet. Officials did not disclose his name yesterday.
The driver of the Navigator, a 60-year-old Waipahu man, was not hurt.
Police closed the H-1 freeway’s westbound lanes for several hours as traffic investigators examined the crash scene.
It was the 11th traffic fatality on Oahu this year, compared with nine at the same time last year.
Canadian man is ID’d as drowning victim
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the 65-year-old man who died Sunday after being found in the Turtle Bay Resort pool as Robert Hendrix of White Rock, British Columbia.
Hendrix died Sunday at Kahuku Medical Center, where he had been taken in critical condition after being pulled from the pool shortly after noon Sunday by people who then performed CPR until Emergency Medical Services personnel arrived.
Police said he died upon arrival at the hospital of a possible heart attack. An autopsy was to be conducted today or Wednesday.
2 rescued after boat’s engine breaks down
A Honolulu Fire Department helicopter airlifted two men from their 19-foot motorboat Monday morning after waters in Kaneohe Bay became too rough.
The boaters called the Fire Department at 12:40 a.m. after their boat experienced mechanical problems about a half-mile east of Mokolii Islet.
Capt. Terry Seelig, a Fire Department spokesman, said the two men planned to spend the night in their anchored boat after its engine broke down, but the ocean conditions apparently became too rough.
The helicopter took the two men to Heeia Kea pier at about 2:44 a.m. Neither boater was injured.
The National Weather Service has issued a small-craft advisory in effect through 6 p.m. today because of strong tradewinds and rough seas of 7 to 14 feet in waters exposed to the wind and wind swell.
