The motorist who caused a five-car crash last year on Kunia Road that killed two people was drunk and speeding, said Vickie Kapp, deputy prosecutor.
An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging Pulu Sese with two counts of negligent homicide.
Police said Sese caused the Jan. 1, 2011, crash that killed Jennifer Parsons, 42, of Waianae, and Samson Kautai, 12, of Kaneohe.
Kapp told Circuit Judge Richard Perkins that Sese was speeding on Kunia Road and passing other vehicles when he crashed his car into Parsons’ vehicle, traveling in the opposite direction. Sese’s car overturned, ejecting him and Kautai.
Kautai, who was previously identified as Samson Sese, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was a rear-seat passenger in the car.
Parsons, too, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the car Sese was attempting to pass veered to the right, then spun into the opposite lane of traffic, where it was hit broadside by a pickup truck. The car traveling behind Parsons was hit by debris, veered to the right and struck a dirt embankment.
Sese went to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition. His other passengers, male teenagers 19, 17 and 14, went to Queen’s in serious condition.
The drivers of the pickup truck and the car Sese was attempting to pass also went to Queen’s in serious condition.
None of the occupants of the car traveling behind Parsons was injured.
Kapp said Sese had been drinking since the night before, and his blood-alcohol content was 0.08, the legal threshold for drunken driving.
She said police calculated Sese’s car was traveling 78 mph in the 35 mph zone.
Perkins set bail Thursday at $50,000.
According to state court records, Sese had no traffic infractions or violations before the crash. However, police stopped him on March 22 this year and cited him for speeding and driving without his driver’s license or insurance card. The case is pending.
