Moped crash sends driver to hospital
A 20-year-old man was critically injured Saturday when he apparently lost control of his moped and crashed into a pole near the intersection of Kamananui and Kaukonahua roads.
Emergency Medical Services personnel transported the man to a local trauma center with head injuries.
The crash occurred around 5:22 p.m.
Burglary suspect is stalled, then arrested
A Kaimuki resident confronted an alleged burglar in her neighborhood Friday morning and stalled the woman until police arrived to arrest her, according to police records.
Police said the woman who reported the incident noticed an unknown woman in her house around 10:10 a.m. and called police. The caller then confronted the suspected thief, a 23-year-old woman with no local address, in a neighbor’s driveway and asked if she could see what was in the bag she was carrying, police said.
The bag was later identified as belonging to one of the caller’s roommates, and the suspect also had bags belonging to the victim of a separate burglary reported a block away, police said.
Police arrested the woman at 10:50 a.m. on Lakimau Street on suspicion of first-degree burglary.
Man pinned between cars is seriously hurt
A 57-year-old man was in serious condition Saturday morning after being pinned between two cars.
The incident happened at 51-296 Kamehameha Highway in Kaaawa at 2:04 a.m.
The man was apparently standing between two parked cars when one of the cars was struck by a third car, pinning him between the two cars, according to an EMS report.
The driver of the parked car, a man whose age was not given, was sent to the hospital in stable condition.
Driver of truck that fell off cliff is identified
Kauai officials have identified the Wainiha man found dead Friday in a pickup truck that ran off a cliff and fell into waters off Kuhio Highway.
Dadly "Bobo" Ham Young, 61, was driving a Dodge pickup truck north on Kuhio Highway when the vehicle apparently veered off the road and fell about 20 feet off a cliff, Kauai police said in a news release.
A bystander reported the accident to police around 7:15 a.m. and emergency responders found Young unresponsive inside the truck. Police believe he was the sole occupant of the truck.
Officials closed Kuhio Highway in both directions from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. while crews recovered the body and the pickup.
Young is the fifth traffic fatality on Kauai so far this year.
Keauhou harbor repairs aided by Oahu troops
Oahu-based soldiers have been helping repair parts of Keauhou Small Boat Harbor damaged by a 2011 tsunami.
Soldiers from the 7th Engineer Dive Detachment in the 130th Engineering Brigade received training in port construction and rehabilitation by helping repair the Big Island harbor over the past three weeks.
The soldiers and contractors from Sea Engineering Inc. poured a concrete jacket around exposed steel pilings and repaired the harbor’s bulkhead.
The mission, called Shallow Brown, began Nov. 4. The crew finished repairs Thursday and flew back to Oahu on Friday.
The unit performs reconnaissance, demolition and salvage missions underwater throughout the Pacific.
The harbor was damaged by a tsunami generated when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan in March 2011.
