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By Star-Bulletin staff
POSTED: 10:11 a.m. HST, Jul 05, 2009
Two Wailuku teenagers died early this morning in a one-car crash on Kula Highway, Maui police said.
The two male victims were identified as Laula Wallace, 19, and Kai‘o Fukushima, 16, both of whom were rear-seat passengers.
Five people were in the car headed north on Kula Highway. At about 1:27 a.m., just north of Noholoa Street in Kula, the 23-year-old Wailuku man driving the car lost control of the vehicle, hit the guardrail, crossed the centerline and crashed into the guardrail on the opposite side of the highway, Maui police said.
Four people were ejected from the car and police said it appears they were not wearing seatbelts. Wallace died shortly after the crash, while Fukushima died at Maui Memorial Medical Center, police said. The conditions of the other occupants of the car were not released.
Officers are investigating whether speed, drugs and alcohol were factors in the crash.
Maui County has recorded 10 traffic deaths so far this year, compared with 12 at the same time last year.
Two Wailuku teenagers died early this morning in a one-car crash on Kula Highway, Maui police said.
The two male victims were identified as Laula Wallace, 19, and Kai‘o Fukushima, 16, both of whom were rear-seat passengers.
Five people were in the car headed north on Kula Highway. At about 1:27 a.m., just north of Noholoa Street in Kula, the 23-year-old Wailuku man driving the car lost control of the vehicle, hit the guardrail, crossed the centerline and crashed into the guardrail on the opposite side of the highway, Maui police said.
Four people were ejected from the car and police said it appears they were not wearing seatbelts. Wallace died shortly after the crash, while Fukushima died at Maui Memorial Medical Center, police said. The conditions of the other occupants of the car were not released.
Officers are investigating whether speed, drugs and alcohol were factors in the crash.
Maui County has recorded 10 traffic deaths so far this year, compared with 12 at the same time last year.
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