Police Identify Second Person Killed in DKI Highway Double Fatality

Hawai‘i Island police have identified the second man killed in the fatal two-vehicle collision on Daniel K. Inouye (DKI) Highway that left two men dead on Tuesday morning, May 5, 2026, as 34-year-old Zachery Winston of Newport News, Virginia.

At 11:00 a.m., South Hilo Patrol officers, along with personnel from the Hawai‘i Fire Department and Pōhakuloa Fire and Emergency Services, responded to a report of a head-on collision near the 26-mile marker.

Police determined that a 2011 Toyota Corolla four-door sedan traveling east (Hilo-bound) was overtaking a vehicle and struck a westbound (Kona-bound) 2016 Hyundai Tucson multipurpose vehicle head-on. 

Medical personnel began life-saving measures on Winston but he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased at 11:38 a.m.

The driver of the four-door sedan, identified as 70-year-old Todd Matsushita of Hilo, was located unresponsive at the scene. He was transported to the Hilo Benioff Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased at 12:28 p.m.

Autopsies have been ordered to determine the exact causes of deaths.

Speed is believed to be a contributing factor in the crash.  Daniel K. Inouye Highway was closed in both directions during the investigation and has since reopened.

The Area I Traffic Enforcement Unit is continuing the investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Officer Laurence Davis at (808) 961-2339 or via email at Laurence.Davis@hawaiipolice.gov. Tipsters may also call the department’s non-emergency line at (808) 935-3311.

This is the 6^th and 7^th traffic fatality on Hawai‘i Island of 2026 as compared to 12 traffic fatalities for the same time last year.