03-29-16 Puna fatality (update)

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Traffic Enforcement Unit, Area I
Sergeant Christopher Gali
Phone: 961-2332
Report No. C16008673

 

Media Release (update)

Hawaiʻi Island police have identified the woman killed Monday (March 28) after being struck by a vehicle on Route 130 in the Puna District.

Skye Kahealeilani Noah, 19, of Pāhoa was walking in the Pāhoa direction on the mauka shoulder of the road when she was struck by a white 2003 Ford Ranger pickup truck traveling in the same direction.

An autopsy conducted Tuesday afternoon (March 29) 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 Route 130 near the Kaloli Drive intersection or may have seen the white Ford pickup truck on Route 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 Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311.


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