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Updated at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, November 9, 2008

Pahoa man, 28, killed in Big Island collision

Advertiser Staff

STATEWIDE FATALITY BREAKDOWN

As of today, 92 people have died in traffic accidents this year in Hawai‘i as compared with 114 by this date in 2007.

The updated 2008 island-by-island breakdown as compiled by The Advertiser:

O‘AHU (38) — Vehicle (15 deaths/14 collisions), pedestrian (13), motorcycle (5), moped (3), bicycle (2). Last fatal: Oct. 23. This month: 0. Last month: 6.

BIG ISLAND (23) — Vehicle (14), motorcycle (7), pedestrian (2). Last fatal: Nov. 8. This month: 1. Last month: 3.

MAUI (20) — Vehicle (11 deaths/10 collisions, includes two on Moloka‘i), motorcycle (7), pedestrian (2). Last fatal: Nov. 6. This month: 3. Last month: 3.

KAUA‘I (11) — Vehicle (10 deaths/8 collisions), pedestrian (1). Last fatal: Oct. 29. This month: 0. Last month: 1.

A Pahoa man was killed on Saturday in an early-morning traffic collision in Puna on the Big Island.

Speed and alcohol may be contributing factors in the 4:02 a.m. collision between a 2003 Mazda four-door sedan and 2008 Mazda multipurpose vehicle on Kahakai Boulevard, seven-tenths miles west of Kikou Street in Hawaiian Beaches, that claimed the life of Pablo Arroyo-Patricio, 28, according to Traffic Enforcement Unit supervising investigator Sgt. Christopher D. Gali.

Arroyo-Patricio's car, headed east, crossed the centerline and collided with the west-bound multipurpose vehicle, police said. He was taken to Hilo Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 6:14 a.m. The driver of the multipurpose vehicle, a 30-year-old Pahoa man, was treated for minor injuries at Hilo Medical Center and released.

The death is the Big Island's 23rd traffic fatality of the year.

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