Japanese tourist dies after falling off trolley in Honolulu

Sad story. Positive side is at least, at 71 years old, the man was in Hawaii enjoying his life.

Correction Asagao, was JUST starting to enjoy his retirement. Worked 12 hour days, saved a ton of cash, and couldnt make it to his planned average life expectancy of 77...RIP

“standing next to the right side, center exit”---door was open or unsecured, or no door at all? “As it made a left turn, he fell off the trolley on to the road.”---an abrupt left turn at rather high speed? As a tourist from Japan where the anouncement in a bus tells you: 'The bus is turning left', that must be the last lesson he had leaned---kio tsukete!

Unlike iconic San Francisco trolleys, the gasoline-powered vehicles travel on wheels and not on a track.

In other words, unlike the iconic San Francisco trolleys, it is a bus.

Been on those trolleys and if I remember correctly the "center exit" was retrofitted with a fixed waist high brass rail across it. It's not a true exit, everyone must leave from the front door. And I believe that no one was allowed to stand near that area.

the drivers of these trolleys drive crappy, this isn't the first time i have heard of this. the $30/day fee is a rip off.

Funny Ben, but I have to agree. A bus and trolley are different.

Unlike iconic San Francisco trolleys...

You mean cable cars? Never heard them called trolleys before...

no cable car is for when the cable pulls the trolley

the drivers of these trolleys drive crappy, this isn't the first time i have heard of this.

Great, just post some links or give some details of previous cases.

It just sounds like a horrible accident, I hope there was no foul play involved, RIP old dude from Japan on da Havian Islands as da locals call it.

They've been around a while. I remember them from when I was in the navy back in the early 80's. They were gasoline-powered buses done up to look like trolleys (or streetcars, if you will). An actual trolley or streetcar would require overhead power wires and that just WOULDN'T do in Honolulu. It would mar the "asthetic beauty" of the glass and steel high-rises along Kalakaua Avenue!

Shouldnt this be called a tram car not a trolley, a trolley is what one pushes round the super market isnt it?

a trolley is what one pushes round the super market isnt it?

A trolley bus is a bus powered by electricity from an overhead cable by means of a trolley wheel. I thought the American name was streetcar.

A quick look on Google images brings up pictures of square, old-fashioned-looking buses with 'Waikiki Trolley' painted on them; they don't seem to have any overhead power source. They seem to be open-sided and the seats face sideways instead of forwards. They might be quite easy to fall out of.

More than likely, the ojiisan was adjusting his packages (they had just left the Ala Moana Shopping Center) as the bus was making a turn and he wasn't holding onto anything afixed to the trolley bus.

I hope he overseas travel insurance but anyway RIP!

Poor old guy- bet he let go of the hand rail to do a peace sign as obaa chan took a photo.