During the week of October 2 through October 8, 2023, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 27 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Six of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision, while two of the drivers were under the age of 21. 

So far in 2023, there have been 752 DUI arrests compared with 760 during the same period last year, a decrease of 1.1 percent. 

The Hawai’i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 645 major collisions so far this year compared with 636 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.4 percent.  

To date, there have been 13 fatal crashes, resulting in 14 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 25 fatal crashes, resulting in 27 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 48 percent for fatal crashes, and 48.1 percent for fatalities.