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Victim of fatal crash identified
Hawaii County police have identified the man who died Friday in a two-vehicle crash in Mountain View as Waimoku T. Lum Ho, 28.
Lum Ho, of Mountain View, was driving a 1995 Chevrolet pickup truck south on Volcano Road, or Route 11, near Kulani Road when he rear-ended a 2009 Dodge Ram flatbed truck, police said.
Police said the Dodge driver, a 39-year-old Volcano man, was not injured in the 1:27 a.m. crash.
Lum Ho was taken by fire rescue personnel to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:50 a.m., police said.
Police have ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
It was the ninth traffic fatality on Hawaii island this year, compared with six at the same time last year.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call officer Paul Kim at 961-2332.