Piece of shit hit her then drove off.
Driver died at the scene and her passenger is in critical condition.
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Posted on: Friday, July 30, 2004 11:59 AM HST
Fatal hit-and-run snarls morning traffic
A motorcyclist dies and her passenger is seriously injured
Leila Fujimori
lfujimori@starbulletin.com
A woman driving a motorcycle was killed and her passenger injured in a hit-and-run accident before dawn today on the ramp connecting three freeways in the Halawa Interchange.
Police were questioning a possible suspect, a 23-year-old man, who was found later in Pearl City.
A man driving a black 1995 Mazda 4-door sedan ran over the motorcyclists at about 4:15 a.m. and then fled the scene, said police Lt. Bennett Martin.
The accident happened on the ramp connecting the Koko Head-bound lanes of the H-1 freeway to the H-3 and Moanalua freeways.
The woman driving the motorcycle, 38, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Her passenger, a 28-year-old woman, was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition.
Police closed the ramp where the accident happened as well as the ramp from the Waianae-bound lanes of the H-1 freeway for several hours as they conducted their investigation.
A witness saw the suspect car and reported it to police, said Martin, who heads the Traffic Division’s Vehicular Homicide Section.
Patrol officers discovered the man in his car sometime between 6:30 a.m. and 6:45 a.m., parked on the side of the road in Pearl City, Martin said.
The man was taken to Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi for treatment.
The freeway ramp closure caused major traffic problems for commuters heading into Honolulu.
“It’s a parking lot,” said KSSK radio traffic reporter Jason Yotsuda at the city’s Traffic Management Center. “Fortunately for us, the private schools and University of Hawaii are not in session yet. It could have been a lot worse.”
To help ease the traffic, the state Department of Transportation director opened the Zipper and High Occupancy Vehicle lanes to all vehicles at about 5:45 a.m.
“We’ll try to do what we can when we have these types of accidents,” DOT spokesman Scott Ishikawa said. “Unfortunately, we’ve had these accidents during the morning rush hour.”
The city’s Traffic Management Center also worked with the signals on Kamehameha Highway through Pearl City and Aiea.
“It worked for a while, until there got to be too many cars,” Yotsuda said.
The shut-down also clogged Farrington Highway through Waipahu, he said.
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