The Hawaiʻi County police department released the following DUI statistics for 2022:

979 DUI arrests were made in 2022 compared to 1,081 in 2021, a decrease of 9.4 percent.

In 2022, there were 215 motorists arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant who were involved in traffic collisions compared with 223 in 2021, a decrease of 3.6 percent. 

There were 85 drivers arrested for driving under the influence of an intoxicant who were under the age of 21 in 2022, compared with 56 in 2021, an increase of 51.8 percent.  

For the year 2022, there were 845 major collisions compared with 820 in 2021, an increase of 3 percent.

In 2022, there were 32 fatal crashes on Hawai‘i Island, resulting in 34 fatalities, compared with 26 fatal crashes resulting in 26 fatalities recorded in 2021. This represents an increase of 23.1 percent for fatal crashes, and 30.8 percent for fatalities.