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Posted: Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 8:59 AM HST

Kapolei man is Big Island’s 30th traffic fatality for 2012

By Ken Hupp - 67AM KPUA News

A 76-year-old Kapolei man has died from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash in North Kohala on August 29th. Police say Calvin B.T. Hoo was heading north on Kohala Mountain Road around 12:30 p.m., when he ran off the right side of the road and lost control of his motorcycle at the 18-mile marker. Hoo was taken to North Hawai`i Community Hospital and later Queen’s Medical Center on O`ahu, where he died shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Friday, September 14th. He becomes the Big Island’s 30th traffic fatality of the year, compared to 15 at this time last year.