Big Island police have identified the two people killed in a traffic crash on Sunday at the intersection of Route 130 and Ainaloa Boulevard in Pahoa as 36-year-old Thomas G. Reimer and his son, 7-year-old Thomas G. Reimer Jr.

Responding to a 7:33 p.m. call, Puna patrol officers and traffic investigators determined that the father and son were on a 2006 Suzuki motorcycle and traveling south on Route 130 when a 21-year-old Pahoa man operating a 1999 Mazda four-door-sedan traveling north made a left turn onto Ainaloa Boulevard, police said.
The father and son, who were wearing helmets, were transported to the Hilo Medical Center where they were pronounced dead at 11:33 p.m., police said.
The 21-year-old Pahoa man driving the car was identified as Bobby K. Jimenez. He was arrested on suspicion of two counts of negligent homicide, promoting a detrimental drug in the third degree and no-no fault insurance, police said. He is being held at the East Hawaii Detention Center pending further investigation.
It is unknown at this time if speed, alcohol or drugs are involved.
Traffic Enforcement Unit officers have requested autopsies to determine the exact cause of death.
Police ask anyone with information on the crash call Officer Michael Molnar at 961-2293.
The deaths on Sunday were 10th and 11th traffic fatalities on the Big Island this year compared with 11 at the same time last year.