MAUNA KEA — A woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Mauna Kea Access Road Sunday night. ADVERTISING MAUNA KEA — A woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Mauna Kea Access Road Sunday night. Responding to the
MAUNA KEA — A woman is dead after a single-vehicle rollover on Mauna Kea Access Road Sunday night.
Responding to the 7:30 p.m. traffic crash, Hilo Patrol Officer’s determined that a 2001 Nissan sports-utility vehicle was traveling down Mauna Kea Access Road approximately 1.2 miles below the Visitor’s Center when the vehicle ran off the roadway and overturned several times.
The driver of the Nissan was taken to Hilo Medical Center where she was pronounced dead at 12:29 a.m. on Monday.
The victim’s name is being withheld pending positive identification and notification of her family.
The front seat passenger, a 35-year old woman of Lyon, France was also transported to the Hilo Medical Center in stable condition and later medevaced to The Queen’s Medical Center on Oahu for treatment to her injuries.
Police have initiated a Coroner’s Inquest investigation and an autopsy has been ordered to determine the exact cause of death.
Police believe that speed was a factor in this investigation.
This is the fifth traffic fatality this year compared with five at this time last year.
