Police have identified the male pedestrian killed April 25 by a pickup truck in Volcano as 44-year-old Collins Kaholo of Volcano.
Officers responding to a 12:25 p.m. call learned that a 2012 Chevy pickup truck, driven by a 52-year-old man, was traveling north on Highway 11 when it struck Kaholo at the Alii Koa intersection.
Multiple witnesses confirmed Kaholo was standing by a stop sign prior to running into the road in front of the truck.
Kaholo, who was unresponsive at the scene, was pronounced dead at 4:17 p.m. at Hilo Benioff Medical Center.
The pickup truck driver wasn’t injured.
An autopsy was conducted, and the pathologist ruled the manner of death to be suicide based on the totality of the circumstances surrounding this investigation.
Due to the manner of death, this traffic fatality will not be counted toward the yearly fatality count. As a result, there have been 18 traffic fatalities in 2024, compared to nine at this time last year.