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The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) will be replacing speed limit signs on the Daniel K. Inouye Highway (also known as Saddle Road) beginning Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Approximately 70 new speed limit signs will reflect an increase in speed limit from 55 mph to 60 mph. The increased speed limit takes effect Feb. 7 […]

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The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) advises motorists that as of Friday, Sept. 4, the truck escape ramp and drainage improvements of the Daniel K. Inouye Truck Escape Ramp project have been completed. The 1,600-foot-long escape ramp is fully functional and open to the public.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have identified a body found off the Saddle Road on June 16. He was identified as 32-year-old Joshua M. Kahele, who had no permanent address. An autopsy report received this month confirmed that he died from asphyxia due to hanging.

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A 31-year-old Keaʻau man died Friday morning (November 29) in a single utility tractor crash. He was identified as Troy K. Pattioay. About 11:33 a.m., Pattioay was operating a 1987 Kenworth Utility tractor pulling an unloaded lowboy trailer and traveling west on Daniel K. Inouye Highway, (New Saddle Road), just prior to the 51-mile marker.

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Hawaii 24/7 Staff UPDATED: 11:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 30 The man who died Friday morning in a tractor-trailer crash has been identified as Troy K. Pattioay, 31, of Keaau. Pattioay died when the utility tractor-trailer he was driving apparently lost its brakes on a steep slope of the Daniel K. Inouye Highway in South Kohala. […]

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Addition to speed Hilo-Kona commute; dedicated on late Sen. Inouye’s birthday

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