Vehicle runs over sleeping man’s arm
Police are looking for a vehicle that left the scene after hitting a man on School Street at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday night.
Witnesses said the victim, a 68-year-old man, was sleeping on the sidewalk near a utility pole on School Street near Liliha Street with his left arm extended into the roadway when the vehicle ran over his arm and nearly severed it.
Paramedics took the man to the hospital in critical condition.
Police closed North School Street at Liliha Street until about 9:30 p.m. while they investigated the crash.
Police officer injured in traffic accident
Paramedics took a Honolulu police officer to the hospital in serious condition Sunday after a traffic accident.
An Emergency Medical Services supervisor said the
29-year-old man was injured at the Kunia Road onramp to the town-bound side of the H-1 freeway at about 7:25 a.m.
Police said the injured officer had responded to the onramp to assist a car that had spun out and hit the guardrail.
He was retrieving papers from his trunk when another car entering the onramp spun out and hit the officer’s car, pinning him against the guardrail, police said.
Driver, passenger hurt in 1-vehicle crash
Speed and alcohol are suspected in a single-vehicle crash in Kalihi that sent two people to the hospital early Sunday morning, one in critical condition.
Police said a vehicle driven by a 24-year-old Honolulu man hit a parked car on Hauiki Street near Kino Street at about 2:47 a.m.
Paramedics took the man and his passenger to the hospital, an Emergency Medical Services supervisor said.
Police said the man was in serious condition, and his passenger, a 23-year-old woman, was last listed in critical condition.
Man’s body recovered from shoreline
Honolulu officials recovered the body of an unidentified man Sunday afternoon behind the Sunset Beach fire station, a Fire Department spokesman said.
A bystander reported to fire personnel at the station that he saw a body along the rocky shoreline at about 1 p.m., fire Capt. Carlton Yamada said. Fire crews checked on the man’s vitals and reported to police and Emergency Medical Services that he appeared to be dead, Yamada said.
Fire crews were released while police conducted an investigation and were called back at about 2:45 p.m. to remove the body, Yamada said.
An EMS supervisor confirmed that the man, who appeared to be in his 30s or 40s, was dead upon their arrival.
Yamada said his firefighters reported no apparent signs of assault, and police located identification on the body.
