Woman hit by SUV in crosswalk at Ward and King
A 52-year-old woman was in serious condition today after she was hit by an SUV while crossing Ward Avenue at King Street, police said.
A 78-year-old Honolulu man hit the woman while making a left turn onto Ward Avenue from King Street in a 2011 Honda CR-V at about 8:30 a.m., police said. The man continued driving up Ward until witnesses stopped him near Hotel Street.
The Honolulu woman was walking Ewa-bound in the marked crosswalk when she was struck. She was taken to the Queen’s Medical Center in serious condition with possible fractures to her left leg, police said.
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this is why senior citizen drivers should be tested more often to get their licenses renewed!
I agree completely.
BIKE LANE!!!!
Must someone get killed before that bike lane is removed? Oh, someone already did. The driver who hit the entrance to Straub Clinic trying to avoid a bicyclist.
What make and model of phone was the pedestrian looking at when hit?
Making a left from King St on to Ward Ave…having to cross the bike lane surely added to this unfortunate accident. However…why take the victim to Queens when that occurred a few feet from Straub?
why wasnt she taken to straub? isnt that right there where she was hit?
FYI–Did you know that the State of Hawaii, defines elderly as 62 yrs and older??
We all have to be much more careful now as we turn left while on South King because of the bike lane. I do not mean this as an excuse for the driver at all — as I am not blaming the bikers — but it is just much more dangerous to turn left because drivers do need to watch for pedestrians and bikers, going in both directions at different speeds. The responsibility lies with the driver, but like I always tell my kids when they walk or bike, you have to be vigilant because you’re the one who would be hurt or dead in the street even if it’s the driver’s fault for not yielding to you.
A couple of days ago, a pedestrian was killed on Houoli street on King. Our mayor gloriously installed a pedestrian walk light fronting Times Market. There is a lighted traffic Stop a few hundred feet in front of that light so it was not needed. Being that the pedestrian walk light was installed, that crosswalk on Houoli Street should have been removed because it is only 200 feet away. If it was removed, maybe that pedestrian would be alive today. Another pedestrian was killed in a crosswalk nearby FHB and that crosswalk is still there even though there are lighted crosswalks nearby.