A woman in her 70s was in serious condition after a car struck her while she was walking in Pearl City on Tuesday morning.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services responded at about 7:20 a.m. to Moanalua Road and Waimano Home Road, near Breene Harimoto Manana Community Park, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported. Paramedics treated her for a head injury and took her to an emergency room in serious condition.
What Responders Reported
The published accounts stop at the medical response. The Star-Advertiser said details were not available on where the woman was walking or what kind of vehicle hit her. KITV also reported that no further information had been released when it published.
The intersection sits beside a community park, a morning crossing point for people on foot. The reports do not establish a cause, a driver, or any citation.
Other Crashes Nearby
Tuesday's collision is not the first serious pedestrian crash reported this year on Waimano Home Road. On April 23, EMS treated a woman who appeared to be in her 60s or 70s after a bus struck her on that road and took her to an emergency room in serious condition, KITV reported.
In September, a 30-year-old man, a 29-year-old woman and a 3-year-old boy were seriously injured after a vehicle struck them while they were crossing near Lehua and Ashley avenues, Hoodline reported. Those crashes involved different people, vehicles and streets.
A Broader Pedestrian Toll
A national report covered by the Star-Advertiser in July ranked urban Honolulu 68th among the 101 largest U.S. metropolitan areas for pedestrian fatalities. Urban Honolulu recorded 81 pedestrian deaths from 2020 through 2024, down from 96 between 2015 and 2019. Its rate was 1.62 deaths per 100,000 residents, and it was one of 18 metro areas whose long-term rate improved.
Statewide, the share of traffic deaths involving pedestrians moved the other way. Honolulu Civil Beat reported that pedestrians accounted for 35% of Hawaiʻi traffic fatalities in 2024, up from 26% in 2022. On Oʻahu, 18 pedestrians had been killed through Sept. 29, 2025, matching the island's total for all of 2024.
Those figures describe earlier years, not Tuesday's crash. What the morning reports do establish is a woman in her 70s, a head injury, and a serious-condition transport from a Pearl City intersection.
