A helmeted 52-year-old moped driver suffered multiple serious injuries Thursday night in an apparent head-on crash in Waikiki.
Officials said he was wearing a helmet. Emergency medical services responded to Kuhio Avenue and Nahua Street at 11:13 p.m. on Nov. 12, administered advanced life support and took him to an emergency room, Hawaii News Now reported.
Nahua has already figured in another serious Waikiki moped crash this year. A driver turning left onto the street struck a 24-year-old woman and her passenger, a 25-year-old man, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. On April 10, a helmeted 26-year-old rider was struck by a car near Kalia Road and Saratoga Road at 8:05 p.m., KITV reported. In a separate crash, paramedics treated two men for multiple injuries and took them to a hospital in serious condition after their moped rear-ended another vehicle on Royal Hawaiian Avenue, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
In 2025, a 25-year-old rider in a two-moped collision in Waikiki was taken to a trauma hospital in serious condition. EMS said he was not wearing a helmet, Hawaii News Now reported.
KHON2 reported that approximately half of 36 Oʻahu crashes in 2026 involving e-bikes, e-scooters, mopeds, motorcycles and similar vehicles involved unhelmeted riders. Of 36 reported incidents involving various bikes and scooters, 20 people were hospitalized. Sixteen unhelmeted riders were hospitalized in serious condition, and the remaining unhelmeted riders were hospitalized in critical condition. Honolulu police issued 91 helmet-related citations to riders in 2026, the station reported. Those figures mix vehicle types across the island; they are not a count of Waikiki moped crashes, or of Thursday night's collision.
