During the week of September 11, through September 17, 2023, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 16 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Two of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision while one of the drivers arrested was under the age of 21.

So far in 2023 there have been 692 DUI arrests compared with 717 during the same period last year, a decrease of 3.5 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 593 major collisions thus far in 2023 compared with 585 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.4 percent.  

To date, there have been 12 fatal crashes, resulting in 13 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 23 fatal crashes, resulting in 25 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one was reclassified to a medical condition) for the same time last year. This represents a decrease of 47.8 percent for fatal crashes, and 48 percent for fatalities.