A woman who said the girl was her niece collected them in tears before leaving. On Friday, a pair of shoes remained at the site of the crash. He later learned a girl, a classmate of his daughter, had been fatally struck, landing nearly 200 feet in the vacant lot where he’d witnessed a helicopter using its spotlight over medics performing CPR. Arriving officers then cordoned off the area, he said. An off-duty police chaplain then arrived on scene and summoned emergency medical services and police. The resident stated he first came upon a young man hunched over, who reported he’d been ejected from the vehicle and that the driver was still stuck inside. However, because nightfall was setting in and the crash triggered a large dust cloud and knocked out streetlights, it was hard to see and he initially did not realize a pedestrian had been struck. “That car flashed past our house.”Īfter the wreck, he and his daughter headed to the area. “We were just going to sit down for dinner, when I heard a car, saw its lights, it flashed by fast,” the man said, estimating the vehicle’s speed at 70 mph to 80 mph as it passed through the 20-mph zone. He said he witnessed the vehicle involved in the crash speeding on Iwikuamo’o Drive seconds before hearing two loud bangs. The debris field stretched some 200 feet from the sidewalk.Ī nearby resident, who asked his name not be published, was among the first on the scene Thursday evening and returned to the site Friday morning. After striking the teens and a transformer filled with 20 to 30 gallons of oil, the vehicle rolled over several times into a vacant lot. According to police, a southbound black 2007 Honda Accord four-door sedan driven by 21-year-old Waikoloa resident Jaychris Romer apparently drove off the mauka side of the roadway struck the juveniles.

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