An 18-year-old Wahiawa man was critically injured late Wednesday night after being struck by a vehicle on Kamehameha Highway by the Chun's Reef surf spot near Hale'iwa on O'ahu's North Shore.

Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city Emergency Services Department, said paramedics were called to the scene about 11:40 p.m.

Police said the man was taken to The Queen's Medical Center and was listed in critical condition.

Police vehicular homicide staff members were sent to the area to conduct an investigation.

According to investigators, the man was "playing" in the street when he was hit by a pickup truck that was traveling toward Kahuku.

The driver failed to stop after the truck hit the man but was pulled over by patrol officers about a mile past the area where the pedestrian was hit, investigators said.

The driver, a 27-year-old man from the Hale'iwa area, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and failing to render aid, police said.

Investigators said alcohol use — both by the driver and the man who was hit — appears to be a factor.

HICKAM GENERAL BEING PROMOTED

Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A. Remington, now assigned to Hickam Air Force Base, has been nominated by President Bush for appointment to the grade of lieutenant general with assignment as deputy commander, U.N. Command Korea and deputy commander, U.S. Forces Korea.

Remington's other duties would be commander, Air Component Command, Republic of Korea/U.S. Combined Forces Command; and commander, Seventh Air Force, Pacific Air Forces, Osan Air Base, Korea, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced yesterday.

Remington is now serving as director, operations, plans, requirements and programs, Headquarters Pacific Air Forces, at Hickam.

REMAINS FROM KOREA IDENTIFIED

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office has announced that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified by a laboratory in Honolulu and will be returned to his family for burial with military honors.

He is Capt. William K. Mauldin, U.S. Air Force, of Pickens, S.C. He will be buried on July 18 in Easley, S.C.

On Feb. 21, 1952, Mauldin departed Kimpo Air Base, South Korea, on an aerial reconnaissance mission of enemy targets in South Korea.

While over Odong-ni, Mauldin's RF-51 Mustang was hit by enemy fire and crashed near Sinan-ri, Hoeyang County, North Korea. An aerial search of the crash site was conducted, but found no evidence that Mauldin escaped the aircraft before it crashed.

From 1991 to 1994, North Korea turned over to the U.S. 208 boxes believed to contain the remains of 200 to 400 U.S. servicemen.

One set of remains turned over in 1993 included fragments of aircrew life-support equipment, and were reported to be those of an American pilot recovered near Sinan-ri.