A 14-month-old girl was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition yesterday morning after a car reportedly rolled over her in Kapolei, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city's Emergency Services Department.

Paramedics treated the girl at 911-038 Holi St. after receiving a call at 7:50 a.m., Cheplic said.

PUNA MAN KILLED IN ONE-CAR CRASH

A 57-year-old Puna man died yesterday from injuries received after his car crashed into a concrete pillar on Hawai'i Belt Road at Old Mamalahoa Highway in Papa'ikou, north of Hilo.

It was the second traffic fatality on the Big Island in two days.

Police said the driver was traveling south on Hawai'i Belt Road in a pick-up truck when he ran off the right side of the road and struck the column that supports the stairs of the old pedestrian overpass.

The man was taken to Hilo Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 8:46 p.m.

The driver was not wearing a seatbelt, police said, adding that it was unknown if speed, alcohol or drugs were involved. A coroner's inquest has been initiated and an autopsy will determine the cause of death, police said.

The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of his family.

Police ask witnesses to the crash to call Officer Robert Pauole at 961-8119.

In the Thursday fatality, a 65-year-old motorcycle rider from Kane'ohe died after he collided with a car driven by a 47-year-old Honolulu man on Kohala Mountain Road, near the 8-mile marker, Big Island police said.

The victim was identified as Robert A. Ueno, of Kane'ohe. Police determined that he had been riding a 2001 Harley-Davidson motorcycle north on Kohala Mountain Road shortly before 2 p.m. when he lost control, crossed the centerline and collided with a 2007 Dodge four-door station wagon traveling south.

Fire Rescue personnel took both drivers to North Hawaii Community Hospital. The driver of the Dodge was treated for minor injuries. A 46-year-old female passenger in the station wagon was not injured.

The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at 2:48 p.m. He was not wearing a helmet.

Police do not believe that alcohol or drugs were involved but they do believe speed was a factor in the crash.

The deaths were the 24th and 25th traffic fatalities on the Big Island this year compared with 25 at the same time last year.

$800K RELEASED FOR HEALTH CLINIC

The governor has released $800,000 to help turn the P&P Supermarket building on North School Street into a second health clinic for Kokua Kalihi Valley.

A planning and design phase for the project is under way. Renovations of the building are set to start in April and be completed by January 2009.

"Renovations are needed to provide adequate facilities for the increasing numbers of low-income residents who rely on Kokua Kalihi Valley's medical, dental and behavioral healthcare services," Gov. Linda Lingle said in a news release.

The governor also released $200,000 for improvements to Kalihi Valley Nature Park.

The money will go to installing walking and hiking paths, community garden plots and more.

FUGITIVE, 25, HELD ON $45K WARRANTS

A fugitive wanted on a parole-revocation warrant was arrested Thursday by police but not before he allegedly rammed an unmarked HPD vehicle at South King Street and Kalakaua Avenue in an attempt to flee.

Christopher Young Lee, 25, of a Kanunu Street address, was arrested on an outstanding $30,000 warrant and a $15,000 parole-revocation warrant by Central Honolulu Crime Reduction Unit officers at 1:10 p.m.

Lee was later booked for first-degree criminal property damage and a firearm offense when a gun was seen in his vehicle.

Lee has three prior convictions, including two for drug-related offenses.

LAW SETS LIMITS ON TAX PENALTY

Mayor Mufi Hannemann has signed into law Bill 46, C.D. 1, establishing a specific penalty for delinquent property tax payments.

The new provision reduces from 10 percent to 2 percent the penalty on delinquent taxes, for each month the taxes are overdue. The maximum penalty cannot exceed 10 percent of the taxes due. The city had been imposing a 10 percent penalty beginning the first day the tax payment was overdue.

In keeping with current practice, the penalty will be levied on the delinquent taxes only, not on any accrued penalties.

TEN PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR PROSTITUTION

Undercover Honolulu police officers arrested 10 people this week for prostitution in the Downtown area.

Undercover officers working in patrol district one arrested nine men and one woman this week. Nine were arrested for soliciting prostitution, a petty misdemeanor, and one person was arrested on an outstanding warrant.

The district covers the Downtown Honolulu area and is home to about 70,000 people.