A Kaneohe woman was killed and two other women injured in a one-car crash in Waimanalo on Wednesday, and witnesses who came to the women’s aid said the driver acknowledged texting just before the accident.

"She (the driver) kept saying, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, it’s all my fault. I was texting. I didn’t mean to hurt her. I didn’t mean for anything bad to happen to her,’" said Erin Brodish, one of the two witnesses, who were having lunch at Waimanalo District Park when they heard the crash and a thud.

Brodish, 51, and Tara Mossman, 41, said the 20-year-old driver told them she was texting then reached for something. When she looked up, she saw a van coming straight at her, they said.

The driver told them she swerved to avoid the Honda Odyssey and struck a utility pole, which came down, according to the two women.

Back-seat passenger Jessica Lum, 19, of Kaneohe, suffered massive head and internal injuries and died at the scene, police said.

The driver and the front-seat passenger were taken in serious condition with head and internal injuries to the Queen’s Medical Center.

Front-seat passenger Tyler "Pele" Parker also said "she saw Jessica fly out of the car," said Brodish, who knows Parker’s uncle’s girlfriend, and later learned she had met Parker and Lum at a Waimanalo home.

Brodish said they ran out to the road after hearing "a horrible crashing sound, sounded like it was crashing into several things as it was spinning."

After a short silence, they heard a thud.

"She (Lum) was still breathing when we came upon her," lying face down on the pavement, according to Mossman.

They found the other two women from the car walking dazed and confused.

Police said the accident occurred at 10:55 a.m. Wednesday.

The car was heading eastbound on Hihimanu Street near the park, veered off the roadway and hit a light post.

The driver lost control and the car continued on the roadway, coming to rest on a grassy area facing the opposite direction.

Police have initiated a negligent homicide case, but the driver had not been arrested, said Sgt. Scott Vierra with the Vehicular Homicide Section.

According to the Judiciary Information Management System, the driver got a speeding ticket March 11 for traveling 56 mph in a 35 mph zone, and paid a $172 fine on March 23.

Speed appears to have been a factor in the crash, and none of the women wore seat belts, he said.

Hihimanu Street is a long, broad roadway where a city transfer station for refuse, the Hawaii Job Corps Center, farms and nurseries are located.

Police shut down a section of Hihimanu for more than four hours while traffic investigators did their work.

"Some evidence recovered at the scene may indicate alcohol may have been involved," Vierra said.

All the occupants of the 2003 Honda Civic were being tested for alcohol use, he said.

This was the 17th fatal accident on Oahu so far this year compared with 21 at the same time last year.

Parker and Lum lived with Parker’s aunt, Cindy Parker, on Oluolu Street, not far from the accident scene.

Cindy Parker got a call from her daughter, who works at the nearby Hawaii Job Corps, who told her about the accident and said someone needs to be with Lum since her family had not yet arrived.

Cindy Parker, upon her arrival, crumpled to the ground, sobbing.

Mossman and Brodish, both acquaintances of the Parker family, came and comforted her.

"We loved her," Cindy Parker said tearfully of Lum.

"She was a beautiful person," who worked as a waitress, as a sushi chef, and briefly at the Kailua Radio Shack, she said.

Cindy Parker said the three women involved in the crash were close friends.

Parker said her niece, Pele, had recently moved back from Arizona, where she had been living.