Elderly man dies at Keaau Transfer station

[MarkP]

Yesterday I spoke with a personal friend of the victim. This friend was not present at the site when the accident occurred so I don't know how he got his info but I think he spoke with the victim's wife. Grain of salt and all that. Anyways he said that the victim was in the habit of parking off to the side and walking up to the bins if he only had one bag so he may not have been in a vehicle and the driver of the van may not have seen him or expected anybody to be there. That does not adequately explain what happened though. I don't want to sensationalize but the degree of the injuries was not consistent with merely being pinned. He was rammed. Again, this is third hand info.

[shockwave rider]

Many people do the same thing, drivers are expected to be aware of their surroundings, including pedestrians, and anyone who uses that transfer station knows that people who are not dumping whole truckloads walk up to the chute all the time. There will often be people back there, which is why there is a concrete curb painted bright yellow creating a 6 foot car free zone between the chute and vehicles. This person backed up with enough force that they "jumped the curb" and killed someone who didn't expect a vehicle to come at them there, responsibility for this tragedy belongs solely to the driver, not the victim for walking a bag of trash up to the chute.