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🚨 TRAFFIC – Big Island Police Investigating Fatal Two-Vehicle Collision on Panaewa Stretch of Highway 11 📍 Location: Hawaiʻi County 📅 Date: May 8, 2026 Hawai‘i Island police are investigating a fatal two-vehicle collision that occurred Friday morning, May 8, 2026, on the Panaewa stretch of Highway 11 near the intersection with Mamaki Street in Hilo that claimed the life of a Puna woman. Officers responding to a 7:08 a.m. call determined that a 2017 Honda Accord four-door sedan was traveling eastbound on Mamaki Street (headed makai) and attempting to cross Highway 11 when it failed to yield to a 2012 Toyota Tacoma traveling southbound toward Kea‘au on Highway 11. The Toyota struck the Honda. The female driver of the Honda, identified as 32-year-old Michaelah Turner of Kurtistown, was found unresponsive at the scene and transported to the Hilo Benioff Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 8:35 a.m. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the exact cause of death. A 13-year-old male passenger in the Honda, also from Kurtistown, was transported to the Hilo Benioff Medical Center and is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. 📰 Full release: https://www.hawaiipolice.gov/police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-collision-on-panaewa-stretch-of-highway-11/ 📞 Have info? Crime Stoppers: (808) 961-8300 🚔 HCPD Non-Emergency: (808) 935-3311 🆘 Emergency: 911 ℹ️ Source: Hawaiʻi Police Department press release https://www.hawaiipolice.gov/police-investigating-fatal-two-vehicle-collision-on-panaewa-stretch-of-highway-11/ 🔍 Search Reports: searchssh.com 📧 Submit Tips: reportssh.com