During the week of July 4, through July 10, 2022, Hawai`i Island police arrested 16 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Three of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident, while three of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2022, there have been 544 DUI arrests compared with 616 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 11.7 percent.

There have been 407 major accidents thus far in 2022 compared with 407 during the same period last year.

To date, there were 19 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 5/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 21 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one of which was reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 13 fatal crashes, resulting in 13 fatalities for the same time 2021. This represents an increase of 46.2 percent for fatal crashes, and 61.5 percent for fatalities.