Activity on mid-Makuu in the last hour

[wecelli]

Anyone know what happened?
Cops, ambulance and road blocked for thru traffic.

[macuu222]

Hmmm.... We were coming back from Hilo and saw a flashing ambulance heading toward Hilo on 130 (which wasn't that strange) but there was a police vehicle following it. Both at a high rate of speed. That was at 4:30 pm.

[wecelli]

Thanks. There were at least 4 police cars, ambulance and fire truck.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I read elsewhere it was a motorcycle accident, the rider died, but I don’t know details.

[Obie]

Another death from a traffic accident on Maku'u.

2 in 1st 15 days of the month !

Maybe time for some traffic patrols on private roads that are main highways.

[kalianna]

Makuu is hardly a main highway. You'd have to work pretty hard to get into a fatal one vehicle accident. But where there's a will there's a way.

[Obie]

Whatever, but there have been 2 fatal accidents in a week.

The speeding is insane !

[macuu222]

Here is what happened...

https://bigislandnow.com/2021/01/15/man-...on-in-hpp/

[leilanidude]

From the article:

Responding to a 3:59 p.m. traffic collision, police determined that a 2013 Honda motorcycle was traveling south on 24th Avenue and failed to stop at a stop sign posted at the Maku‘u Drive intersection. The motorcyclist broadsided a 1999 Nissan Frontier truck that was traveling mauka on Maku‘u Drive, police said.

The motorcycle driver, who was not wearing a helmet at the time of the collision, was unresponsive at the scene. He was transported to Hilo Medical Center via ambulance where he was pronounced dead at 5:27 p.m. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the exact cause of death.

[AaronM]

God rest his soul. May his family find peace. ER staff have long called helmetless riders organ donors. Please wear a helmet.