{"id":309,"date":"2017-09-03T01:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T01:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/?p=309"},"modified":"2022-05-27T04:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T04:52:47","slug":"kaulana-werner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/kaulana-werner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaulana Werner"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"309\" class=\"elementor elementor-309\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-655ad9bb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"655ad9bb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6ef72c63\" data-id=\"6ef72c63\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5168d1b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5168d1b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/11\/CLV_WernerFamily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Kaulana Werner, 19 years old, was tragically&nbsp;killed on April 24, 2016, by a speeding, DUI driver, who fled the scene.&nbsp;HPD apprehended the&nbsp;22-year-old driver about a half-mile from the crash site in Nanakuli.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-311 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/09\/KWerner-2-300x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Kaulana was a well-known and loved football player who played for the Nanakuli Hawks, Kamehameha Kapalama Warriors as well as the Sterling Kansas Warriors.&nbsp;Kaulana returned to Hawaii to help care for his parents.&nbsp;The evening of the crash, Kaulana told his&nbsp;parents he was going to a nearby park to play basketball, which was something he&#8217;s always done. Upon returning back home, he was walking on the side of the road across the street from his house when he was struck by the car driven by a drunk driver.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-314 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/09\/KWerner-5-300x287-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kaulana Werner #1\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\"><\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;22-year-old&nbsp;hit-and-run driver had&nbsp;a .13 BAC at the time of the fatal crash.&nbsp; She was arrested and charged with Negligent Homicide, first degree, with the maximum of 10 years in prison. The Werner family is seeking the maximum justice for causing the death of their son, Kaulana.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-313 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2017\/09\/KWerner-4-300x267-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kaulana Werner #2\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaulana Werner, 19 years old, was tragically&nbsp;killed on April 24, 2016, by a speeding, DUI driver, who fled the scene.&nbsp;HPD apprehended the&nbsp;22-year-old driver about a half-mile from the crash site&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/madd.org\/hawaii\/kaulana-werner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kaulana Werner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-victim-stories","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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