HomeMy WebLinkAboutPrincevilleWomanIdentified .pdfDEREK S.K. KAWAKAMI, MAYOR
MICHAEL A. DAHILIG, MANAGING DIRECTOR
News Release
For Immediate Release: April 22, 2022
COUNTY OF KAUA‘I
KAUA‘I POLICE DEPARTMENT
TODD G. RAYBUCK, CHIEF
(808) 241-1600
Princeville woman who died in Kūhiō Highway crash identified
LĪHU‘E – Kauaʽi police have identified Roxanne Fasanella as the 59-year-old woman who died in
last week’s crash on Kūhiō Highway.
The crash occurred on April 15 and involved four vehicles in the vicinity of mile marker 15 on
Kūhiō Highway in Anahola.
According to a preliminary report, at approximately 12:39 p.m. last Friday, the driver of a white
Chevrolet pickup truck, traveling southbound, struck a blue Chevrolet pickup truck that was in the
process of turning left at state mile marker 15. That collision caused the blue pickup to collide with a
northbound Ford MPVH. Moreover, after the initial collision, the blue pickup continued onto the
shoulder, striking a parked vehicle, a Chevrolet convertible. After the second collision, the driver of the
white pickup proceeded to flee the scene.
Fasanella, the passenger in the Ford MPVH, suffered fatal injuries and succumbed to those
injuries at Wilcox Hospital.
Thomas Castro, the driver of the white Chevrolet, has since turned himself in and is facing
charges of Negligent Homicide in the Second Degree, Negligent Injury in the First Degree, Negligent
Injury in the Second Degree, Collisions Involving Death or Bodily Injury, and Inattention to Driving.
This was Kauaʿi’s fourth traffic fatality of 2022.
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