LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i police have identified Jesse Santiago as the 50-year-old man who died in a single-vehicle crash on Friday, Aug. 21, around 11:30 p.m. on Rice Street.
LIHU‘E — Kaua‘i police have identified Jesse Santiago as the 50-year-old man who died in a single-vehicle crash on Friday, Aug. 21, around 11:30 p.m. on Rice Street.
According to the police report, Santiago was driving a 2003 red Toyota pickup truck and was heading westbound on Rice Street when his vehicle struck a utility pole at the intersection of Eiwa Street.
The truck came to rest in the westbound lane of Rice Street fronting the Kaua‘i Museum.
Speed appears to be a contributing factor in the crash and toxicology results are still pending to determine if alcohol and/or drugs were also involved.
This was Kaua‘i’s sixth traffic fatality of 2020.
They just installed a cement median right there. Wondering if that had anything to do with this.