HA‘ENA — North Shore residents are urging drivers to slow down on the narrow, wet and winding roads in Ha‘ena where a white pick-up truck crashed late Wednesday afternoon. “It was a bad scene,” Ha‘ena resident Jonny Wichman said Thursday.
HA‘ENA — North Shore residents are urging drivers to slow down on the narrow, wet and winding roads in Ha‘ena where a white pick-up truck crashed late Wednesday afternoon.
“It was a bad scene,” Ha‘ena resident Jonny Wichman said Thursday. “It was kids being kids, but we really would like to try to slow them down.”
The driver and three passengers were traveling south on Kuhio Highway when his rear tire hit an embankment and flipped over, county spokesperson Mary Daubert said Thursday.
No one was seriously injured, she said, but the three passengers were taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital as a precaution. All were reportedly wearing their seatbelts and alcohol and drugs are not considered factors.
The crash, which was called in at 4:41 p.m., closed that portion of the highway for a couple hours, Daubert said.
The county spokesperson could not confirm if speed may have been a factor in the accident because the police report had yet to be filed, but witnesses said it was a teenage driver and he was cruising well-above the posted speed limits.
“No one was killed, luckily,” said Wichman, who lives about 200 yards from the scene of the crash. “We have a constant problem with people, mostly young kids, speeding through our neighborhood here in Ha‘ena.”
He said he hopes drivers “wake up to the dangers of speeding.”
The names of the driver and passengers could not be confirmed by press time. The accident remains under investigation.
