Woman dies from injuries suffered in car crash in Ala Moana area
STAR-ADVERTISER / JAN. 2007
An aerial view of the Hawaii Convention Center and Atkinson Drive.
An 87-year-old Honolulu woman has died from injuries she sustained in an October car accident in the Ala Moana area.
The Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office identified her as Janet A. Okuhara of Honolulu.
An autopsy is expected to be performed today to determine the exact cause of death.
At about 12:06 p.m. on Oct. 18, police said Okuhara was a passenger in a 2004 Toyota sedan driven by an 86-year-old Honolulu woman traveling southbound on Atkinson Drive when the vehicle sideswiped another vehicle traveling in the same direction.
The driver then struck a curb and traffic sign before she sideswiped a stopped vehicle. Police said the Toyota driven by the 86-year-old woman hopped the curb and slammed head-on into a wall.
Okuhara suffered neck injuries and was transported to a hospital where she died Thursday.
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The driver’s condition was not available and it’s unknown at this time whether both Okuhara and the driver were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.
Okuhara’s death is the 45th traffic-related fatality on Oahu compared to 40 at the same time last year.
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The Oahu elevated rail project is useless for commuters, however very soon all private vehicles will be required to be “smart” cars and trucks that allow drivers like this 86 year old drive around Hawaii’s roads and highways, however will have autonomous capability monitoring in the background and when people like this elderly driver drift out of their lane, the car will automatically correct the mistake and keep her car in their lane preventing the accident in the first place. Even after an unforseen collision, smart cars will take over driving and provide the optimum evasive maneuvers and slow down the car in a way that does not cause the car to be driven into a wall that caused the death of the driver’s passenger. This will probably happen before the Oahu rail is even finished to Middle St. Also with engineer Dennis Mitsunaga paid analysis of the problems with current rail construction, probably many sections of the Oahu elevated rail track will have to be redone, besides replacing all of the plastic shims supporting the rail that are substandard.
Gee inverse, for an article on someone who died in a car crash, you really went all over the place with your post.
Point is the Oahu rail will be obsolete and useless before it is even finished and future vehicle technology will make it SAFE for the very young, old or just bad drivers to drive cars because their lack of or diminished driving skills will not be so important and these type of deaths will be a thing of the past with smart cars preventing these type of accidents. With this same technology, hitting and killing pedestrians with a vehicle will be a thing of the past as in the future cars are so smart that even if a driver had purposeful intent on hitting a pedestrian they could not as the car would slow down or stop before it hit the person.
Inbverse, who do you think will be able to afford these smart cars? They wouldn’t be cheap.
Aren`t seat belts not supposed to break, if they had them on don`t you think some one had to unbuckle them – and thus have noticed?