During the week of August 15 thru August 21, 2022, Hawai`i Island police arrested 19 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Five 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 651 DUI arrests compared with 713 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 8.7 percent.

There have been 517 major accidents thus far in 2022 compared with 512 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.0 percent.

To date, there were 23 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 5/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 25 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one of which was reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 14 fatal crashes, resulting in 14 fatalities for the same time in 2021.n  This represents is an increase of 64.3 percent for fatal crashes, and 78.6 percent for fatalities.