Hawaiʻi Police Department
Traffic Enforcement Unit, Area I
Sergeant Christopher Gali
Phone: 961-2332
Report No. C16010032
Media Release (update)
A 29-year-old Puna man has died from injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Kīlauea Avenue and Kawailani Street in Hilo on April 12.
He has been identified as Ryan W. Devaney of a Pāhoa address.
Responding to a 4:51 a.m. call, South Hilo patrol and Traffic Enforcement Unit officers determined that Devaney was operating a 2001 Lincoln four-door sedan and traveling west on Kawailani Street when he ran the red light and was struck by a 2014 Peterbuilt rubbish truck traveling south on Kilauea Avenue and being operated by a 35-year-old Pāhoa man.
Devaney was taken to Hilo Medical Center and was then flown in critical condition to The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, where he died at 6:31 p.m.
The driver of the rubbish truck was not injured.
Police do not believe that alcohol, drugs or speed were factors.
Traffic Enforcement Unit officers have initiated a negligent homicide investigation and have ordered an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death.
Police ask anyone with information about the crash to call Officer Keith Nacis at 961-8119 or the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311.
This is the 8th traffic fatality on Hawaiʻi Island this year compared with seven at this time last year.
