Police seeking information about road rage incident 07-26-12

Hawaiʻi Police Department
Puna District
Sergeant Robert Hatton
Phone: 965-2716
Report No. C12019998

 

Media Release

Big Island Police are investigating a reported road rage incident as a criminal property damage case.

At 8:15 p.m. Wednesday (July 25), a 59-year-old Puna man reported at the Pāhoa police station that he had been driving in the Pāhoa direction on the Keaʻau-Pāhoa Road (Route 130) when he passed a Toyota pickup truck just south of the intersection with Ainaloa Blvd. The Toyota truck then reportedly struck the victim’s truck three times from behind, with the third strike sending the victim’s vehicle into a slide.

As the victim drove to the police station, the suspect followed him but then drove away before police could contact him. He was last seen heading in the Keaʻau direction on Route 130 back toward Ainaloa.

The suspect’s vehicle is described as a dark-colored new Toyota Tacoma 4-door pickup truck, possibly black or charcoal gray. It appeared to be lifted.

Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed the incident or who has information about the truck or its driver call Officer Shawn Tingle at 965-2716.

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