During the week of March 28, 2022, through April 3, 2022, Hawai`i Island police arrested 17 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Two of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident while two of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2022, there have been 286 DUI arrests compared with 326 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 12.3 percent.

There have been 187 major accidents so far in 2022 compared with 196 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 4.6 percent.

To date, there were 10 fatal crashes, resulting in 12 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths), compared with 7 fatal crashes, resulting in 7 fatalities for the same time last year.  This represents is an increase of 42.9 percent for fatal crashes, and 71.4 percent for fatalities.