Police are looking for the driver of a car who allegedly struck a pedestrian and fled the scene Thursday evening in the Nanawale Estates subdivision of Puna.
A 34-year-old Pahoa man reported that he was walking southbound on Nanawale Boulevard at 7:30 p.m. Thursday when a car traveling at a high rate of speed in the same direction struck him and left the scene. A Good Samaritan gave a ride home to the victim, who is being treated for minor injuries, according to the Hawaii County Police Department.
Police are looking for witnesses to the hit-and-run, which is being investigated as a negligent injury case, and also want to talk to the Good Samaritan, who was driving what may have been a green Subaru Outback.
The suspect’s car was described as a primer-gray four-door sedan. It possibly had three occupants, police said.
Anyone with information should call the department’s nonemergency line at 935-3311 or contact Officer Bronson Kaliloa at 965-2716. Remain anonymous by calling the islandwide Crime Stoppers number at 961-8300.