Woman, 52, dies after being hit by vehicle in Keeaumoku area
A 52-year-old female pedestrian died Saturday after she was hit by a vehicle a day earlier in the Keeaumoku area.
Police said the woman was struck at the intersection of Sheridan and Rycroft streets about 10:10 a.m. Friday.
A 27-year-old Honolulu man was turning onto Sheridan Street from Rycroft when he struck the woman, police said.
She was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died the next day.
She was the ninth pedestrian killed on Oahu’s roads this year. It was also the 17th traffic fatality on the island this year, compared to 19 at this time last year.
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Seems like there are more pedestrian and moped injuries and deaths lately.
Friday night on King Street driving by Wiliwili Street I almost hit a homeless person pushing his shopping cart. A cross walk was just 30 feet away. He just came out from between the parked cars. And then when approaching Isenberg street another homeless person crossed the street outside the cross walk. Cops need to show more presence in that area at night.
I’ve noticed lately that pedestrians do not pay attention to vehicular traffic when they are crossing the street … it’s a 2 say street out there … both parties need to be cognizant of what’s around them.
I notice a lot of drivers not watching where they are going. This is particularly true when they are coming out of an exit from a shopping center and also when they are turning from one street into another. The drivers are all looking at approaching cars but not at people crossing the street in a crosswalk. When there is space between approaching cars, they hit the gas and then that’s when the pedestrian is hit. Pedestrians can’t make eye contact with that driver because the driver is focused on the approaching cars.
I see this so many times that I have concluded that Hawaii drivers are careless. I even had to wait for an HPD car because he wasn’t looking both ways.
Can’t put it all on drivers because many people enter crosswalks when the hand is flashing and/or the timer is counting down. So a driver assumes the crosswalk should be clear of pedestrians, only to find that pedestrians cross when they aren’t supposed to. It’s a two way street here.
If pedestrian does not make eye contact with driver he shouldn’t cross street.
The law giving pedestrians right of way needs to be changed back to the non existent law.
A pedestrian walks into a marked crosswalk not caring if cars are coming. These pedestrian know that the laws are such that the drivers of these vehicle must stop for me. It takes one driver not aware of these pedestrians for whatever reason that they end up hitting them with their vehicle.
There are always openings on roadways for pedestrians to cross. They need to wait for that opening. Remember to always look both ways if needed, make eye contact with the driver when possible. Hurry across the roadway always looking to see if oncoming vehicles are coming.
Remember you may have the law on your side and may be right in walking into the crosswalk but may end up dead wrong. People do not put faith into this law. Get the mindset that you will cross when the road is clear from oncoming vehicles. Looking both ways before entering and continue looking while crossing and getting to the other side as quickly as possible.
My condolence to this lady’s family, always tragic and sad for those left behind.
It’s a two way street, folks. Being alert and cautious, whether you’re driving or a pedestrian, can lead to much safer conditions. Plain and simple but these accidents will continue to happen because we’re not engaged in the moment.
For about 30 years (I’m in my 70’s) I have been jogging around my neighborhood early in the morning, usually in the dark,, which includes Beretania and South King Streets. A short while ago, I stopped jogging and I go to a gym instead, substituting a tread mill for the sidewalks and streets. Why? One morning, I had three cars slamming the brakes to avoid hitting me while crossing a street with the pedestrian green signals on. All three cars were making left turns on green lights and were watching only for oncoming cars and not pedestrians. I did not want to become another statistic, you know, the one related to elderly pedestrians in Hawaii (highest casualty rate in the nation).
I walk every day in town, and because I can’t count on drivers to be paying attention, I rarely use any crosswalk that doesn’t also have a stoplight. (I believe that’s the case at Rycroft/Sheridan.) Even if I have the walk light, I don’t enter the crosswalk until I’m sure a driver turning into the street has seen me — sometimes to get their attention, as they’re focused only on the traffic coming from the other direction, I will even thump my canvas bag on their car. In the early morning and evening I make sure I’m wearing something white, and/or reflective — I think most pedestrians have no idea how invisible they are to drivers, even attentive drivers, at those times of day.
The intersection of Rycroft and Sheridan is a very busy intersection and dangerous to pedestrians despite the fact that there is a traffic light there largely because of the very high
number of vehicles that use those streets to leave and enter Walmart at that location.
What puzzles me is that despite the large number of these types of pedestrian accidents where the person is in a cross walk and has the light to cross, there seems to be hardly anyone
being criminally charged in these cases. Wonder why that is. Should not the drivers in these case be charged with negligent homicide at the least??
Maybe they didn’t have the light? Lots of people think it’s ok to enter a crosswalk when the hand is flashing or the timer is counting down.