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No word yet on cause of fatal crash
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Posted on Jan 25 2005
Authorities have yet to disclose whether Saturday’s fatal collision along Monsignor Guerrero Road in Chalan Kiya was alcohol related.
Department of Public Safety spokesman Eric F. David said yesterday that members of the Traffic Investigation Unit are still investigating the incident, which killed two individuals.
Preliminary investigation showed that a 1991 silver Hilux pickup being driven by the 16-year-old Yumiko Yagi was heading east when she lost control of the vehicle and swept into the westbound lane, colliding with an oncoming 2005 Toyota Matrix, driven by 36-year-old James O. Tanaka.
Both Yagi and Tanaka were transported to the Commonwealth Health Center where they were pronounced dead. Both sustained massive head injuries and internal hemorrhage.
Three other passengers on Yagi’s pick up, 18-year-old Buckman Leelan, 21-year-old Alphonsus Ngirmeriil, and a 17-year-old male sustained minor injuries. The two sitting on the bed of the truck were reportedly thrown from the vehicle, landing about 30-35 feet from the scene.
Yagi’s pickup sustained extensive damage on the front while Tanaka’s vehicle sustained extensive damage on the front left portion.
The collision is the third fatal traffic related incident this year.
Early Jan. 7, a 33-year-old man was killed and his 51-year-old passenger seriously hurt after their vehicle ran off the road and crashed into a concrete wall and power pole in front of Toys 4-U along Middle Road in Gualo Rai.
A couple of days earlier, a gardener died when his pickup truck hit a tree and rolled over a hill in Capitol Hill.
Last year, a total of nine traffic related fatalities were recorded, one more than the eight recorded in 2003. Of the nine, seven were alcohol related. Five alcohol related fatalities were recorded in 2003.
