A pickup truck slammed into a parked vehicle and landed on top of a fire hydrant late Tuesday night on Bingham Street in McCully, flooding the roadway as firefighters worked to free four trapped passengers, including a 1-year-old girl, from the wreckage. An SUV also overturned nearby in the crash, which happened just outside Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children.
Honolulu Fire Department crews responded to the scene at 11:55 p.m., according to KITV. Witnesses told the station the pickup truck was sent into the hydrant during the collision, and firefighters jacked up the vehicle so two passengers could climb out on their own. Hydraulic rescue tools were needed to extricate the other two passengers, who were trapped inside.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services identified the four occupants as a baby girl about a year old and three women in their 20s, per the same report. EMS evaluated the infant and one of the women at the scene, and neither required hospital transport. The other two women were taken to an emergency room, with one described as being in critical condition and the other in serious condition; both reportedly suffered extensive injuries.
Hydrant Break Sent Water Rushing Down Bingham Street
The impact sheared the fire hydrant, sending water flooding across Bingham Street while HFD crews stabilized the vehicle and worked the extrication. Sheared hydrants require rapid isolation of the water main to stop the loss of pressure and water, a task that falls to the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, which runs a 24-hour dispatch line for exactly this kind of emergency call.
The response fell to Honolulu Fire Department Station 29, the McCully-Mōʻiliʻili station located nearby at University Avenue and Date Street, which keeps an engine, ladder truck, and specialized extrication equipment on hand for crashes like this one. The crash site sits directly along the stretch of Bingham Street that borders Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children, Hawaii's primary pediatric and maternal hospital, which runs its main patient drop-off driveway and parking garage entrance on that same street.
Case Now Falls Under Vehicular Homicide Section
Honolulu Police Department's Traffic Division classified the crash as Traffic Fatality #26 of 2026, placing the investigation under its Vehicular Homicide Section, the unit that handles collisions involving critical injuries, fatalities, or felony traffic offenses. It remains unclear who was driving, whether speed or impairment played a role, or whether the young child was properly secured in an approved child safety seat as required under Hawaii Revised Statutes § 291-11.5 for passengers under age 4.
The crash adds to a string of serious traffic incidents in the McCully-Mōʻiliʻili corridor. In June, a 17-year-old e-motorcyclist was critically injured in a hit-and-run on nearby South King Street, a case Hoodline previously covered. And in August 2024, a 73-year-old moped rider died in a crash in the same neighborhood, underscoring a pattern of traffic danger that has repeatedly drawn attention from local Neighborhood Boards.
Bingham Street itself has seen other recent disruptions, including a full closure between Punahou and Alexander streets in July tied to an early-morning police investigation. The City and County of Honolulu's Department of Transportation Services has separately targeted the corridor for modernization work, including signal and turn-lane updates near the nearby H-1 freeway ramps, reflecting its role as a busy arterial route feeding medical facilities and highway access alike.
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