A 59-year-old woman died Monday in the Queen’s Medical Center of critical injuries suffered earlier this month when she was hit by a commercial truck near the hospital, police said.
Police said a Pepsi delivery truck carrying a pallet of canned beverages was backing up on Miller Street when the vehicle struck the woman, who was in the street shortly after 6 a.m. Nov. 5.
The woman was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition.
The woman was believed to have been initially in a wheelchair that belongs to the hospital, police said. The wheelchair was on the sidewalk near the accident scene, close to the ambulance entrance of the hospital’s emergency room at the time of the accident. It’s unclear how the woman got onto the roadway.
There were personal items on the seat of the wheelchair and in a clear plastic bag tied to the one of the handles.
The fatality marked Oahu’s 43rd traffic death of 2015, compared with 52 at the same time a year ago.
Smoke inhalation blamed in man’s death
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office said a 57-year-old Makiki man died of smoke inhalation last month during a fire in which his house collapsed.
Johnny Kim died Oct. 10 in a structure fire at 1531-D Kewalo St. In addition to smoke inhalation, he suffered burn injuries, the Medical Examiner’s Office said.
Two neighbors helped Kim’s daughter escape from the burning home. More than 30 firefighters from 15 companies responded to the fire at 11 a.m. and brought the blaze under control by 11:30 a.m.
When firefighters arrived 80 percent of the one-story structure had been destroyed.
Firefighters found Kim’s body inside the collapsed house. Kim’s daughter, 25, was treated for smoke inhalation and released at the scene.
Firefighters estimated the blaze caused $420,000 in damage. Fire investigators said the cause of the fire, which started in the kitchen, was food left unattended on the stove.
