Search on for third vehicle involved in fatal South Kona accident

KAILUA-KONA — Police have reclassified a recent traffic fatality from a coroner’s inquest investigation to a negligent homicide investigation in light of new information.

Officers are now looking for the driver of a third vehicle believed to have been involved in the previously reported two-car accident that killed 20-year-old Breanna Fujimoto around 1:30 a.m. Sept. 3 on Highway 11 just south of the Kamehameha III Highway intersection.

The investigation now believes that a green Subaru or Isuzu SUV may have caused Fujimoto to cross the centerline of the roadway, according to a press release Friday. That could have led to the Captain Cook resident’s head-on collision with a 2015 Nissan SUV.

The driver of the SUV and her children, a 13-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, were also taken to Kona Community Hospital. The status of their condition wasn’t available Friday.

Calls to the department regarding what led to the new information weren’t returned Friday.

Fujimoto was driving a 2016 Honda sedan at the time of the accident.

Anyone who may have witnessed either the collision or the green SUV leaving the scene of the collision should call Officer Justin Hooser at 326-4646, ext. 229. People who prefer to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300.