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A 21-year-old Mililani man died Monday evening after he apparently lost control of his car and hit a tree on Meheula Parkway.
The crash occurred around 6:21 p.m.
According to police, the man was traveling north at a high rate of speed on Meheula Parkway near Holanialii Street when he lost control and struck a tree on the median strip.
The man was transported with critical head and internal injuries to Wahiawa General Hospital, where he later died.
Police said speed and alcohol appear to have been factors in the incident.
Police closed Meheula Parkway in both directions between Holanialii Street and Hokuahiahi Street for more than three hours while an investigation was conducted.
This was the 28th traffic fatality on Oahu this year, compared to 32 at the same time last year.
Officer hurt as suspect’s vehicle hits car
A Big Island police officer was injured early Monday morning while approaching a vehicle that had fled from a traffic stop in Hilo.
According to police, patrol officers tried to stop a car on Kanoelehua Avenue near Kawili Street at about 12:40 a.m. The vehicle pulled away, but the officers located it in a parking lot off Lihiwai Street a few minutes later.
As the officers approached in their car, the driver of the vehicle again tried to drive away, and the vehicle struck the police car, police said. Two male occupants fled on foot.
One of the officers sustained "substantial but non-life-threatening injuries" and was transported to Hilo Medical Center, according to police.
Man pulled from sea in critical condition
Paramedics treated and transported a man, estimated to be 18 to 20, to a hospital emergency room in critical condition Monday afternoon after he was found unresponsive in shoreline waters in the Waianae area, according to an Emergency Medical Services report.
The man was pulled from the ocean by witnesses at about 2:30 p.m.
Paramedics responded to the scene, near Farrington Highway at Mohihi Street, where there is no lifeguard tower.
Autopsies scheduled in ocean accidents
The city Medical Examiner’s Office said Monday it will perform autopsies on two people, including a visitor from China, who died after separate water-related incidents last week.
On Thursday at 9:45 a.m., Kirsten Abe, 20, of Wahiawa was brought to shore unresponsive at White Plains Beach at Barbers Point. She had been paddleboarding in the area.
Paramedics took the woman in critical condition to a hospital, where she died.
At 11 a.m. Thursday in Waikiki, Hong Zhou Pan, 36, of Zhejiang, China, was brought to the beach fronting Kalakaua Avenue near Kapahulu Avenue. CPR was administered. Paramedics took him in critical condition to a hospital, where he died.
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