Big Island traffic fatality victim was Pahoa man
Advertiser Staff
Big Island police today identified a 52-year-old Pahoa man who died Saturday in a two-car collision at the intersection of Hawai'i Belt Road and Kukui Camp Road in Mountain View as Allan A. Kalua.
Kalua was driving a northbound 1986 Honda two-door sedan on Hawai'i Belt Road that rear-ended a 1987 Ford pickup truck which had stopped to make a left turn onto Kukui Camp Road at 5:03 p.m.
Kalua was taken to Hilo Medical Center where he died at 6:04 p.m.
The pickup truck driver, a 26-year-old Mountain View man, was not injured.
The death is the Big Island's fifth traffic fatality in 2008.