Nine people, including baby and toddler, injured in freeway crash
H-1 westbound traffic was still heavy at 9:26 a.m. today, shortly after police reopened three lanes before the Waipahu offramp following multiple vehicle accidents. (Courtesy Department of Transportation)
Traffic on the H-1 westbound before the Waipahu offramp was backed up this morning after multiple accidents prompted police to close all lanes in the area. (Courtesy Department of Transportation)
A multi-vehicle crash on the H-1 freeway this morning closed the Ewa-bound lanes of the freeway and injured nine people, including a three-year-old toddler and 1-year-old baby.
Police closed all Ewa-bound lanes of the H-1 freeway this morning near the Waipahu offramp at about 7:45 a.m. following multiple accidents.
Paramedics treated nine people following the accidents for mostly minor injuries.
Four people — a 22-year-old woman, 3-year-old girl, 1-year-old boy, and 32-year-old man— were taken to the hospital.
The woman and children were reported in stable condition. The man was listed in serious, but stable condition, according to the Emergency Services Department.
By 10:30 a.m. police reopened all westbound lanes and the Waipahu offramp.
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19 responses to “Nine people, including baby and toddler, injured in freeway crash”
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From watching the morning news, it looks like the accident was in the far right lanes. Keep your distance from the vehicle in front of you. Nice sunny conditions, and the sun is not shining in your eyes (westbound). So, speed, on cellphone possible reasons? Drive safely people.
Add unsafe lane changes in addition to not using turn signals. This is often happens before a major offramp where drivers do mot want to get into the exit lane early because those lanes are usually slower, so they will jam in the left most lanes and then dive bomb into the right lanes in an attempt to beat everyone. Add the fact of Oahu usually has freeway onramps just BEFORE and freeway offramp so no surpise formthese type of accidents. How to make it safer is to redesign all offramps to be before on ramps and to make offramp lanes separated earlier, forcing drivers to get in the exit lane earlier and preventing the last minute lane change dive bombers.
Totally agree. Not using turn signals is one of my biggest gripes. And, when they squeeze in, they don’t even give you a shaka or wave THANKS. I bet that’s the kind of people that cause most of these accidents.
I use my turn signals in time, before changing lanes. Sometimes, I see the cars behind me speed up to block my change.
Most people only see the turn signal as a decoration stick to hang rubber bands on.
Yep. On the mainland, off ramps are BEFORE on ramps. Here in Hawaii, we got it backwards.
Be proud that Hawaii has a perfect record of being, backwards.
We have far *far* less space to put on and off ramps. That’s the primary reason for the difference.
Nice sunshine? Sunshine, on my shoulders, makes me happy…lyrics.
Is the rail built yet?
BUILD IT!
Rail would not help. Another highway will. Build one over/under Pearl Harbor. For most people, rail does not leave from or go to your home and work place, and combining a bus trip with rail is extremely inconvenient. Highway is the king of infrastructure and quality of life. Build the highway.
Add in the fact that the lane markers are not that great. I drive this stretch of H-1 six days a week. If it is raining the lanes are anyone’s guess. Seriously, roads on the Molokai and the Big Island are way better. Oh sure not as much traffic, but still City and County and DOT responsible for Oahu are truly incompetent. Rail ain’t gonna fix it. In fact it could get worse as monies will funnel to HART for O & M.
Stay off your cell phones & have a Merry Christmas.
YES…
Why do accidents and traffic happen? Because of the droves of stupid people that drive a car
drive this stretch of road every afternoon. ever since the new lane completely opened, it has become even worse. something about the flow of this traffic between pearl city and the waipahu offramp is not right. the traffic in the right 2 lanes is so heavy that it’s hard to get into the waipahu exit lane. even with no incidents on the side, the traffic slows to a snails pace, with people diving in at the last minute to try and get off. i used to take this exit everyday. now i end up going to the ka uka exit because it’s too hard to get off at waipahu. i think maybe it should have been an exit only lane.
We’d have maybe 20% less cars on the road if they impounded vehicles with no insurance and ones operated by drivers with no licenses.
whoa it happened again? so weird