HONOLULU -- A man who died in crash on the Pali Highway on Wednesday night has had four speeding tickets this year and an extensive record of outlaw driving in the past, KITV 4 has learned.

One expert said the man's record is an example of a weakness in Hawaii's speed laws.

Michael Allen Borges, 43, was speeding when he crashed his Honda Wednesday night, police said. The crash killed him and nearly killed his passenger, his fiance.

Police are still piecing together conflicting witness accounts. They said they believe Borges' Honda and another vehicle that crashed nearby were speeding and may have collided. Whether a third vehicle was involved is still unclear.

Court records indicate Borges was a frequent speeder. He got four speeding citations this year and paid none of them. Last year, an excessive speeding citation, for going 30 mph over the limit, cost him $637 and a license suspension. His record before that includes citations for speeding, driving without a license and without insurance.

"This is not an isolated incident," attorney Patrick McPherson said.

McPherson represents many drivers in traffic court. He said because regular speeding tickets are not criminal offenses it is easy to accumulate many of them.

"I do cases where people will come in and they have pages and pages of unpaid fines and no license and no insurance," McPherson said.

Borges had two court appearances at traffic court in the last few months, one in September and one in August. However, at neither one of those hearings did the judges do anything about the four outstanding speeding tickets.

That is apparently not usual, according to McPherson. He said while many states require a multiple speeder to face a judge and increasing penalties, Hawaii does not do that.

"Right now, there is nothing out there that says this is how we are going to do this its just basically keep paying the fines and you keep driving," McPherson said.

In Hawaii, drivers who ignore the citations can avoid penalties for years until the unpaid citations block their license renewal.