Pearl City woman ID’d as pedestrian victim
The Medical Examiner’s Office identified the 60-year-old woman who died after she was hit in a crosswalk by a speeding motorist Wednesday night as Guangha Wen of Pearl City.
A 1989 Toyota Corolla traveling at high speed hit Wen Wednesday night on Waimano Home Road, police said.
Paramedics took Wen in critical condition to the Queen’s Medical Center with head and internal injuries. Police said she died early Thursday morning.
The car, driven by a 48-year-old Kapolei man, was traveling downhill near Leomele Street at 8:13 p.m. when it hit Wen, police said.
Fire damages 2-story Ford Island house
Federal firefighters are investigating the cause of a two-story house fire Friday night on Ford Island.
Four Honolulu fire companies were sent to the fire at 1043 West Virginia St. at 9:06 p.m. and assisted federal firefighters who already were on scene, said Honolulu fire Capt. James Todd.
Honolulu firefighters also helped a preteen girl, who may have sustained burns, and turned her over to federal firefighters, who checked her out and released her at the scene, Todd said.
He said the fire was brought under control and that federal firefighters were still working on the fire by the time Honolulu firefighters left before 10 p.m.
Driver exposes himself to UH student
Security officials are looking for a man who calls out to people while masturbating in the driver’s seat of a sedan on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus.
Campus Security said a female student was walking along University Avenue near Maile Way at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when she passed a parked black sedan, possibly a Volkswagen. A man in the driver’s seat called out to her, and when the student looked at him, she saw him exposed and masturbating, Campus Security said in an alert emailed to students Friday.
The student ran onto campus. She called security when she thought she saw the same vehicle on campus, but the vehicle left before authorities arrived. Security said the man was light-skinned, in his 20s, 180 pounds, with a heavy build and black, shoulder-length hair.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Campus Security at 956-6911 or police at 911.