During the week of December 11 through December 17, 2023, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 29 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Seven of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision while one of the drivers was under the age of 21.

So far in 2023, there have been 917 DUI arrests compared with 940 during the same period last year, a decrease of 2.5 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 817 major collisions thus far in 2023 compared with 809 during the same period last year, an increase of 0.99 percent. 

To date, there have been 15 fatal crashes, resulting in 16 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 30 fatal crashes, resulting in 33 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 50 percent for fatal crashes, and 51.5 percent for fatalities.    
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