During the week of June 24, through June 30, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 17 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Five of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident.

So far in 2024, there have been 484 DUI arrests compared with 493 during the same period last year, a decrease of 1.83 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 498 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 429 during the same time last year, an increase of 16.08 percent.

To date, there have been 18 fatal crashes, resulting in 20 fatalities (two of which had multiple deaths and one crash was reclassified as a suicide), compared with 9 fatal crashes, resulting in 10 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.