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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 5:25 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2008

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.