Crash with SUV kills driver on dirt bike
A 41-year-old Kula man died when the dirt bike he was driving collided with a sport utility vehicle Friday night on Maui.
Jason Williamson was driving a 2004 Honda XR250 dirt bike without license plates north on Kula Highway when he collided with the passenger side of a 2004 Jeep Cherokee making a left turn into Keokea Community Park, Maui police said.
A 41-year-old Pukalani man driving the Jeep was not hurt, but a 39-year-old woman and a 3-year-old boy, both in the back seat, went to the Maui Memorial Medical emergency room for treatment of minor injuries.
All three people in the Jeep were wearing seat belts, and Williamson was wearing a helmet.
He is Maui’s 12th traffic fatality this year compared with three at this time last year.
Hostage standoff ends with man’s arrest
A 30-year-old man was arrested after a hostage standoff with police that lasted about four hours Saturday morning in Ewa Beach.
Police said the man reportedly pointed a handgun at his 28-year-old girlfriend and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not discharge. The man then reloaded the gun and pointed it at his own head, but did not fire the weapon. The girlfriend escaped with her 4-year-old daughter, leaving her 7-year-old daughter with the man still in his home. She called police and reported the incident about 12:50 a.m.
A crisis negotiating team was dispatched, and the man gave himself up before negotiations began at 4:44 a.m. He was arrested on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder.
Injury at Sacred Falls leads to 7 citations
Seven people were cited for entering Sacred Falls State Park on Saturday after firefighters had to rescue a woman who hurt her leg while hiking.
Department of Land and Natural Resources spokeswoman Deborah Ward said land officers cited four men and three women — including four military personnel — for illegally entering the park, which has been closed since Mother’s Day 1999, when eight people were killed and 50 others injured by a rockslide in the valley.
The citations are petty misdemeanors, punishable by up to 30 days in jail.
Honolulu fire Capt. Terry Seelig said firefighters received a call about noon after the woman, who was hiking with three others, slipped and hurt her leg within 100 yards of the waterfall. Firefighters hiked in, prepared the woman for transport, and used a helicopter to pick her up and take her to a nearby park, where she was transferred to paramedics about 1:05 p.m.
