During the week of March 25 through March 31, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 17 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Eight 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 233 DUI arrests compared with 256 during the same period last year, a decrease of 22.7 percent.

The Hawaiʻi County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 252 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 231 during the same time in 2023, an increase of 9.1 percent.

To date, there were 12 fatal crashes, resulting in 14 fatalities (two 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 200 percent for fatal crashes and 180 percent for fatalities.