A rush-20-hour-day, hour accident turned a minute commute into an long odyssey for some Eastside commuters yester-after three pickup trucks collided fronting Wailua Golf Course. Two drivers were transported via ambulance to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, but their medical conditions were
A rush-20-hour-day, hour accident turned a minute commute into an long odyssey for some Eastside commuters yester-after three pickup trucks collided fronting Wailua Golf Course.
Two drivers were transported via ambulance to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, but their medical conditions were not immediately known.
A third vehicle escaped major damage.
According to Kaua‘i Police Department Assistant Chief Clay Arinaga, at about 6:42 a.m., a white Toyota Tundra heading southbound on Kuhio Highway crossed the center line and hit two other pickups.
The Tundra first clipped a pickup truck heading north-bound, causing minor damage, he said, and then slammed head-on into a 1996 dark-blue Nissan, which was heading north-bound.
While police and fire officials worked at the scene, Arinaga said, the outer lane, south-bound, fronting the Kauai Community Correctional Center, remained open.
But that, and contra-flow, could not stop traffic from backing up into Kapa‘a town.
Police were able to intermittently open the north-bound lane as they worked to clear the scene, and all lanes were back open at 8:01 a.m., Arinaga added.
Traffic remained slow for at least another half-hour, according to some commuters.
