The female driver of the vehicle involved in the accident that put two motorcycle police officers in the hospital, is banned from driving until her case has been adjudicated.
That’s one of the conditions for the release of Dimary Stowers, who’s charged with two counts of careless driving causing bodily injury and failure on duty to give information and render aid.
Stowers, who appeared in District Court yesterday, is quoted in court filings saying that she heard the police sirens within the area and thought they were far away. She saw a truck pulling over to the side of the road and other vehicles stopping on the opposite side. She assumed both traffic lanes were stopping to give way for her to enter the main highway. Stowers was on the road to the side of the Veterans Memorial Stadium.
She says in the court documents that as she drove onto the highway, the impact was sudden as two police motorcycles crashed into the front bumper of her vehicle.
A male driver and witness told police, once he heard sirens, he pulled over close to the dirt road where Mrs. Stowers was driving from. He honked at the defendant as she continued driving out from the dirt road, to let her know of the police motorcycles heading west. The man said, the defendant appeared to be distracted as she was observed using her phone while driving onto the highway. He saw Mrs. Stowers vehicle crashing into the police motorcycles.
The court filings identify the two police officers who were injured in the Monday morning accident, along the Iliili Airport Road as Officer Iakopo and Corporal Tuvale.
Stowers is out on bail of $2,000.
