During the week of June 10, through June 16, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 25 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Five 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 451 DUI arrests compared with 462 during the same period last year, a decrease of 2.38 percent.

The Hawaiʻi County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 453 major crashes so far this year, compared with 393 during the same time last year, an increase of 15.26 percent.

To date, there were 16 fatal crashes, resulting in 18 fatalities (two of which had multiple deaths and one crash was reclassified as a suicide), compared with 8 fatal crashes, resulting in 9 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one died at a later date) for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 100 percent for fatal crashes and 100 percent for fatalities.