Posts tagged highway

• Benjamin Makekau and Ikaikakane Makekau Victims of Fatal Kalanianaole Crash

  Wayne Parsons | October 19, 2009 5:02 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The car left the road and went airborne and crashed into a tree and the roof of the Oceanic Institute building. The occupants, Benjamin Makekau, 20, and his brother Ikaikakane Makekau (19) were dead...

• Federal Highway Administration Studies Cause Of Motorcycle Crashes

  Wayne Parsons | October 10, 2009 6:30 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  Hawaii247 reports that the Federal Highway Administration is conducting an ambitious new study to better understand and prevent motorcycle crashes, Administrator Victor Mendez...

• Dangerous Trailers - Why Did Michael Davison Die In Kona? - Regulation = Prevention!

  Wayne Parsons | September 19, 2009 4:42 AM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Why did Michael Davison die at 49 in Kona? He was minding his own business and being responsible. His SUV was slammed by a run-away trailer carrying canoes. I described it as a freak accident. I...

• Bad News Hawaii Motorists! Highway Bill Passage This Fall Is Unlikely

  Wayne Parsons | September 12, 2009 2:13 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  JOSH MITCHELL of the Wall Street Journal writes that federal funding for interstate highways across the country is in trouble: Highway-Bill Passage This Fall Is Unlikely. Recent articles have...

• Deteriorated Interstate Highways And Roadways In Every State Add To Fatalities

  Wayne Parsons | September 10, 2009 2:55 PM | 3 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  One of my pet peeves is potholes. How about you, readers? Any of you like potholes? Catch a 6-inch deep 2 foot wide pothole at 45 mph and you'll feel $45 slip out of your wallet on car maintenance...

• Hawaii Highway Chronicles: Are Our Roads The 4th Worst in the Country?

  Wayne Parsons | September 09, 2009 3:27 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  I just read the report, “Future Mobility in Hawaii: Meeting the State’s Need for Safe and Efficient Mobility,” and it does not bode well for those of us who use Hawaii Highways and...

• Trailer Hitch Failure Leads to Death of Michael Davison in Kona on Sunday

  Wayne Parsons | September 07, 2009 4:27 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Deadly automobile accidents continue to plague the Big Island roads. Our condolences go out to the family of a 49-year-old California man who was killed on Sunday in a freak accident on Queen...

• Why Are Fatal Traffic Accidents in Honolulu Concentrated In Downtown and Iwilei?

  Wayne Parsons | September 06, 2009 3:28 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Let take the off ramp on the H-1 Interstate Highway and cut through Downtown Honolulu over to the Iwilei area and Nimitz Highway. For the past wek a group of Injury Board affiliates across the...

• Risky Drivers Don't Just Drive Drunk and Speed - They Often Don't have Insurance

  Wayne Parsons | September 03, 2009 4:09 PM | 1 CommentHonolulu, HI Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Today I am looking at the drivers who cause the injury and death that plagues our interstate highways from Hawaii to North Carolina and everywhere between. Getting inside the head of the bad drivers...

• Interstate Highways Are No Place For Drunk Drivers Over The Labor Day Weekend

  Wayne Parsons | September 01, 2009 4:36 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As the Labor day weekend approaches police across the nation are cracking down on drunk driving. Those of us who see the tragic results of dangerous driving behavior support the police and hope that...