During the week of August 7 through August 13, 2023, Hawai`i Island police arrested 20 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Seven of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision, while  none of the drivers were under the age of twenty-one.

So far in 2023, there have been 600 DUI arrests compared with 628 during the same period last year, a decrease of 4.5 percent. 

The Hawai’i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 525 major collisions so far in 2023 compared with 500 during the same period last year, an increase of 5 percent. 

To date, there have been nine fatal crashes, resulting in 10 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 23 fatal crashes, resulting in 25 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths) for the same time last year. This represents a decrease of 60.9 percent for fatal crashes, and 60 percent for fatalities.