3 Oahu traffic fatality victims identified
Advertiser Staff
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The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office today identified three people who died between Oct. 29 and Nov. 11 from injuries suffered in motor vehicle collisions on O'ahu.
The three are:
Wigen was injured Oct. 29 when the vehicle he was driving rear-ended a truck on Farrington Highway, 62 feet south of Helelua Streeet. Wigen died of complications of blunt force injury/chest on Oct. 29 at The Queen's Medical Center, according to autopsy findings. Manner of death is listed as accidental.
Yette was injured July 13 in a 1 p.m. single-vehicle crash on the H-1 Freeway westbound, 75 feet west of Kunia Road. Yette died Nov. 4 at The Queen's Medical Center. An autopsy listed cause as complications from blunt force injuries/pelvis and left femur from a motor vehicle collision with other significant factors that included diabetes and congestive heart failure. Manner of death is accidental.
Orallo was injured Sept. 1 in a single vehicle crash at midnight on Fort Weaver Road, 12 feet south of Geiger Road. Orallo died Nov. 11 at The Queen's Medical Center of "multi-system organ failure due to complications of a motor vehicle collision" and other significant factors which included hepatitis C, diabetes and drug dependency, according to autopsy findings. Manner of death was accidental.
The deaths were the 39th, 40th and 41st traffic fatalities on O'ahu this year.
No. 42 was Russell Reyes of Wai'anae who died yesterday at the Wai'anae Coast Comphrehensive Health Center.
An autopsy today listed cause of death as multiple internal injuries due to ejection from a moving pickup truck and manner as accidental. Police said Reyes fell from the roof of a 1986 Nissan pickup truck headed south on Wai'anae Valley Road when the truck negotiated a bend in roadway. Reyes was on the roof trying to secure a garbage bin in the bed of the truck, police said.
