LIHU‘E — The sale of local produce, flowers and other items continued unabated after the relative calm of the start of the Sunshine Market at Kapa‘a New Park was interrupted by the sound of screeching car tires and screaming vendors
LIHU‘E — The sale of local produce, flowers and other items continued unabated after the relative calm of the start of the Sunshine Market at Kapa‘a New Park was interrupted by the sound of screeching car tires and screaming vendors and buyers Wednesday.
Yael Li-Ron of Kapa‘a, who was attending the market, said that, shortly after the 3 p.m. whistle heralded the start of the weekly market, sounds of horror were heard in the form of “a horrible screeching sound and people screaming.”
Apparently, an elderly local woman had put her vehicle into reverse instead of a forward gear, and her car hit two vehicles occupied by market vendors, who had been sitting in the trunk of their vehicle selling items, Li-Ron said in an e-mail.
American Medical Response ambulance professionals transported one of the vendors to Wilcox Memorial Hospital after she complained of head and neck pain.
The two women vendors were taken to Wilcox Hospital where they were treated and then released, states a county press release.
The incident occurred at around 3:04 p.m. when a 70-year-old Kapa‘a woman accidentally reversed into a hatchback and truck where the vendors were standing, causing them to trip and fall into the open hatchback.
The 70-year-old driver was not injured in the mishap, the release states.
“It was quite scary,” said Li-Ron, who used to work at The Garden Island and witnessed the entire chain of events.
Jan Bateman, a visitor from Corvallis, Ore., also witnessed the events, and sent along a photo as well.
