Copper stolen from Hawaiian Telcom poles
Hawaiian Telcom reported Thursday that 300 feet of copper cable was stolen in Kalaeloa near the now-closed Barbers Point Naval Air Station.
It was the seventh time in two years that thieves have struck in the area.
Thieves sawed through two cables strung between poles one with 400 pairs of copper wire and the other with 200 pairs on Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue between Tulagi and Forrestal avenues.
The destruction of the cables may have caused a disruption to telephone and Internet service, Hawaiian Telcom said in a news release.
Crash kills driver on H-1 freeway
A 72-year-old man died after crashing his 2000 Lincoln Town Car on the H-1 freeway near the Waialae Avenue offramp, police said.
Police said he may have suffered a medical condition, as he had been seen slumped over the steering wheel.
The man was heading east on the H-1 at about 1:04 p.m. when he drove up an embankment near the offramp and struck a signpost, police said. The man continued in the right lane, then sideswiped a wall and a guardrail, went left toward the median and then headed right, hitting a rock wall, police said. The man was taken in critical condition to the Queen’s Medical Center, where he died, police said.
Pedestrian dies after being hit by car
An 89-year-old Kaneohe man died Thursday morning from injuries he sustained when a car struck him earlier in the morning while he was crossing Kaneohe Bay Drive.
Police said a 68-year-old Kailua man driving a white 2009 Volvo sedan struck the pedestrian in a marked crosswalk. The driver was heading west on Kaneohe Bay Drive.
The accident occurred in front of Castle High School, an Emergency Medical Services report said.
The older man received multiple injuries and was taken in critical condition by ambulance to the Queen’s Medical Center, where he died a short time later.
