The 3-week-old female infant involved Thursday in the head-on, two-vehicle collision involving seven people on Daniel K. Inouye Highway near the 25-mile marker has died, Hawaii island police reported today.

The infant was pronounced dead at 5:29 p.m. today.

Police determined that a 2022 Toyota pickup truck traveling east (Hilo-bound) overtook multiple vehicles and struck a westbound (Kona-bound) 2014 Subaru multipurpose vehicle head-on. The driver of the pickup truck, identified as 43-year-old Kimo Medeiros of Kurtistown, and five occupants of the Subaru were transported to Hilo Benioff Medical Center for treatment.

A sixth passenger, who was in the backseat of the Subaru, identified as 47-year-old Anina Masaichy of Kailua-Kona, was unresponsive at the scene and later pronounced dead at

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