Police identify motorcyclist killed in Hilo crash

News September 5, 2023, 3:08 PM HST Hawai‘i Island police have identified the motorcyclist involved in a fatal traffic collision in Hilo in the ear...

September 6, 2023
6:06 AM

News September 5, 2023, 3:08 PM HST Hawai‘i Island police have identified the motorcyclist involved in a fatal traffic collision in Hilo in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, as 45-year-old Michael Wilson of Mountain View.  When Hilo patrol officers responded to a single-vehicle traffic collision on Kilauea Avenue at 12:36 a.m. on Saturday, they determined that a 1990 Yamaha motorcycle operated by Wilson was traveling southbound on Kilauea Avenue just before the Puainako intersection, when it crossed the center line and crashed head-on into a utility pole.