During the week of March 18, through March 24, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 19 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Eleven of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident, while two of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2024, there have been 216 DUI arrests compared with 245 during the same period last year, a decrease of 11.8 percent.

The Hawaiʻi  County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 224 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 217 during the same time in 2023, an increase of 3.2 percent.

To date, there have been 10 fatal crashes, resulting in 11 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths), compared with four fatal crashes, resulting in five fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths) for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 150 percent for fatal crashes and 120 percent for fatalities.