No matter when, it always happens,” Hanakahi said. He said public awareness campaigns during holiday periods always warn people not to drink and drive, but more needs to be done to make people drive responsibly. “I’m dumbfounded by, like, how you can speed up and down these roads knowing families live here,” Hanakahi said. Police said speed and alcohol appear to be factors in the fatal crash but that it’s too early to tell whether drugs were involved.
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“She’s strong, responsive, healing,” he said.Īccording to police, the 27-year-old driver of the other vehicle was arrested at the scene on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant along with two counts of first-degree negligent homicide. “It’s her birthday, and she is without her mom and her sister,” Stuart Hanakahi said.
The teenager remains in intensive care but is expected to recover, he said. He said Palisbo planned to take Shaylee Hanakahi to Hilo to celebrate her birthday with her sister. A welder, he was preparing to fly to the Republic of the Marshall Islands for a federal contract that required he quarantine in Hawaii before flying out and after arrival. Stuart Hanakahi was quarantining in Waikiki at the time of the tragedy. Palisbo and Leah Hanakahi were dead at the scene, EMS said. Upon arrival, EMS found the teenager with multiple injuries and performed lifesaving measures before transporting her to a nearby trauma facility. Honolulu Emergency Medical Services said it was alerted to the crash at 10:48 p.m. Several people hugged Stuart Hanakahi as he thanked people for coming by. A crowd of about 30 friends and family gathered under the shade of a nearby tree as the sun beat down. On Sunday a makeshift roadside memorial of flowers, balloons and stuffed animals marked the spot of the fatal crash near the intersection of Haleakala Avenue and Mokiawa Street. The teenager had just gotten out of the parked vehicle when the speeding car slammed into theirs. The father of the two girls, Stuart Hanakahi, 38, said Sunday that Palisbo had picked up Shaylee Hanakahi from work and was driving her to a family gathering. The crash killed 38-year-old Kelsey Palisbo and her 7-year-old daughter, Leah Hanakahi, and seriously injured 17-year-old Shaylee Hanakahi.
Two people died, including a 7-year-old girl, when a suspected drunken driver slammed into a parked vehicle in Nanakuli on Saturday night.Īccording to the Honolulu Police Department’s Vehicular Homicide Division, a 27-year-old motorist was traveling northeast on Haleakala Avenue at a high rate of speed when he lost control of his vehicle and collided with a parked vehicle around 10:30 p.m.
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