A Kailua-Kona woman was killed and six other people seriously injured after a suspected drunk driver crashed his pickup truck head-on into a vehicle with six occupants on Daniel K. Inouye Highway Thursday afternoon, Hawaii island police said.

At about 4:34 p.m., South Hilo patrol officers and personnel from the Hawaii Fire Department and Pohakuloa Fire and Emergency Services responded to a report of a head-on collision near the highway’s 25-mile marker, according to a police news release.

Police said a 2022 Toyota pickup truck driven by a 43-year-old man was traveling east overtook multiple vehicles and struck a westbound 2014 Subaru multipurpose vehicle with six occupants head-on.

One backseat passenger of the Subaru, identified as 47-year-old Anina Masaichy of Kailua-Kona, was unrespo

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