Victim in fatal hit-and-run accident identified

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Police on Tuesday identified the woman killed Monday after being hit by a white 2003 Ford Ranger pickup truck Monday.

Police on Tuesday identified the woman killed Monday after being hit by a white 2003 Ford Ranger pickup truck Monday.

Skye Kahealeilani Noah, 19, of Pahoam was walking in the Pahoa direction on the mauka shoulder of Highway 130 when the pickup truck, going the same direction, hit her, according to the Hawaii Police Department.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday afternoon determined that she died as a result of internal injuries. The death was ruled as accidental.

Police continue to seek motorists who may have witnessed the collision on Highway 130 near the Kaloli Drive intersection or may have seen the white Ford pickup truck on Highway 130 during the evening hours of Sunday or early morning hours of Monday.

Anyone with any information about this case is asked to call Officer Keith Nacis at 961-8119 or the department’s nonemergency line at 935-3311.