[KL7AA] Michael Caughran, KL7R/SK

[Jim Larsen - AL7FS]

Alaska has lost one of its great QRPers and electronics experimenters in 
a car accident.  Michael Caughran, KL7R, of Juneau, died this week in 
Kauai.  He will be missed.

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73, Jim
-- 
Jim Larsen
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.AL7FS.us/

  	
	January 24, 2007

KAUAI News

Alaska man is first traffic fatality of ’07
	

by Ford Gunter - THE GARDEN ISLAND

The visitor who died in Monday’s accident on Kuhio Highway was 
identified by county officials as Michael Caughran, 51, of Alaska.

The Caughran’s two passengers, wife Jacquelyn Smail, 50, and son Sean 
Caughran, 23, both of Alaska, were treated and released from Wilcox 
Memorial Hospital Monday.

Earlier reports indicated that the two passengers were both female.

Bus driver Jerry Elwood, 60, of ‘Oma‘o, was also treated and released 
from Wilcox.

According to police, at around 4:15 p.m., the northbound sedan attempted 
to make a U-turn from the right land of the highway. A Polynesian 
Adventures Tour bus, also northbound and trailing on the inside lane, 
broadsided the car and pushed it across the highway and onto the shoulder.

The accident, which occurred near Mile Marker 3, blocked traffic in both 
directions for several hours Monday evening.

The island’s first traffic fatality of 2007 comes almost a year to the 
day after the first of 2006 — a year in which 14 people died on Kaua‘i 
roads, including three members of a California family who were struck by 
a natural gas truck while attempting a U-turn near Waimea in August.