Hawaii County police identify 2 victims killed in Kona crash
Hawaii County police released the names of the two people killed in a crash in Kona Thursday as Jeongah Hyun of Kailua-Kona and Iljung Nam of South Korea.
At about 12:35 p.m., police said Hyun, 45, was traveling on Highway 190, north of the 31.5 mile-marker, with Nam, 46, in a silver Mazda multi-purpose vehicle when she “crossed left of the center” and was broadsided by a white 2013 Peterbilt dump truck traveling south.
The dump truck driver, a 46-year-old Honokaa man, was taken to Kona Community Hospital with minor injuries.
The Hawaii County Fire Department said Hyun and Nam were pronounced dead at the scene.
Autopsies will be conducted to determine the exact cause of their deaths.
The accident brings the number of traffic-related fatalities on the Big Island to 30 this year compared to 17 at the same time last year.
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Police have opened a negligent homicide investigation.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Officer Christopher Kapua-Allison at 326-4646 or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.
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Somehow the picture doesn’t look right.
Are they investigating if the dead woman was responsible for negligent homicide? Because I don’t see how it was the dump truck driver’s fault (maybe so the victims can sue her estate? But it sounds like she’s from another country, so how would that work?)