During the week of October 30 through November 5, 2023, Hawai`i Island police arrested 17 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Six of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision, while one of the drivers was under age 21.

So far in 2023, there have been 813 DUI arrests compared with 845 during the same period last year,  a decrease of 3.8 percent.

The Hawai’i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 714 major collisions thus far in 2023 compared with 698 during the same period last year, an increase of 2.3 percent.

To date, there have been 14 fatal crashes, resulting in 15 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 30 fatal crashes, resulting in 32 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 53.3 percent for fatal crashes, and 53.1 percent for fatalities.