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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 5:15 p.m., Thursday, November 6, 2008

Kona crash victim died of heart attack

Advertiser Staff

A 75-year-old Big Island man died of a heart attack and not injuries related to the crash of a tractor-trailer Tuesday in the Kona district, according to autopsy findings released today.

Police Traffic Enforcement Unit supervisor of investigations Sgt. Christopher D. Gali said the death of Takeo Nagamine of Holualoa will not be counted as a traffic fatality.

Nagamine was driving a north-bound 1992 Kenworth tractor-trailer that veered off

Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway, 333 feet north of the 94-mile marker in the Kona district, at 11:30 a.m.

He was pronounced dead at Kona Community Hospital at 12:32 p.m.