Media Release (update)

Police traffic investigators have identified a 59-year-old Hilo woman who died Tuesday (March 25) from injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle collision on the Hawaii Belt Road (Route 11), .3 miles south of the 99-mile-marker.

The victim was identified as Maydell Uilani Perreira.

This crash was the 10^th traffic fatality on the Big Island this year compared with nine at this time last year.

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