A 55-year-old North Shore man was indicted by an O'ahu grand jury yesterday on a single count of first-degree negligent homicide in connection with a car crash in September that fatally injured a 10-month-old Waialua girl.

City Deputy Prosecutor Vickie Kapp told Circuit Judge Derrick Chan that witnesses estimated Ceriaco Kasoga was traveling at least 75 mph and was passing other vehicles on a curve near Waimea Bay Beach Park when the Dodge Caravan he was driving crashed head-on into a Honda Accord carrying Saydee Miller, who was riding in a child restraint in the right front passenger seat.

Kapp told Chan that Kasoga had several speeding tickets prior to the fatal collision and that a blood sample taken from him after the incident showed a blood-alcohol content level of .11.

Under Hawai'i law, a person is considered to be driving drunk if his or her blood alcohol reading measures .08 or more.

Chan set bail at $50,000, as requested by Kapp, and issued a bench warrant for Kasoga's arrest. Kasoga could not be reached yesterday to comment on the matter.

Saydee's grandmother, Rhonda Teixeira, who was 38 at the time of the crash, was driving toward Hale'iwa when the crash occurred.

Both were flown by helicopter to The Queen's Medical Center, as was Kasoga.

Darin Awong, Saydee's grandfather and Teixeira's ex-husband, said a few days after the crash that his granddaughter never emerged from a coma and died after being taken off life support equipment.

His ex-wife suffered cuts and bruises and a broken sternum, but was released from the hospital three days after the crash.

Also yesterday, an 18-year-old man was arrested in connection with a crash that killed two men in Waialua in May.

The suspect was the driver of a car that crashed on Kaukonahua Road early in the morning of May 13. A group of friends had been celebrating Shane Bachiller's 18th birthday.

Bachiller died at the scene. Lanakila Vierra died later at a hospital.

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