Posts Tagged: Accidents

State, Military Investigate Freeway Crash

Posted by https://www.dmzhawaii.org/?author=3 & filed under O'ahu.

State, Military Investigate Freeway Crash by Minna Sugimoto HONOLULU (KHNL) — Both the state and military are investigating the freeway crash, which severed the main traffic artery linking downtown Honolulu to Leeward and Central Oahu. A freeway fiasco. “It’s going to be a huge bill,” Scott Ishikawa, state Department of Transportation, said. State officials expect… Read more »

Military trailer rig smashes into overpass, snarls traffic for hours

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JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO@STARBULLETIN.COM Motorists were still snarled in heavy traffic late last night on the H-1 freeway near Middle Street in Kalihi. STUCK » A structural accident on an H-1 overpass snarls traffic for hours » Officials are unsure if westbound lanes will reopen this afternoon By Mary Adamski madamski@starbulletin.com Work at the site… Read more »

Car carrying soldiers may have been racing in fiery freeway crash

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The Honolulu Advertiser reported: Funeral services for Mariano “Mel” Melvin Salangdron, a Safety Systems Hawai’i employee who was killed in a fiery crash on the H-1 Freeway on Feb. 13, will be held Saturday at Mililani Mortuary Mauka Chapel. Salangdron, 49, was riding in a flatbed truck owned by Safety Systems that was doing its… Read more »

Okinawans protest crimes by US troops

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Published on Thursday, July 13, 2000 in the Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany) Okinawans Outraged Over Crimes By Troops Of ‘Rogue Superpower America’ by Karl Grobe Bowing to Japanese concerns about a string of incidents involving American troops stationed on Okinawa, United States military authorities on the Japanese island have this week imposed an indefinite curfew and… Read more »