During the week of August 12 through August 18, 2024, Hawai`i Island police arrested 20 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Eight of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident, while one of the drivers was under the age of 21.

So far in 2024, there have been 614 DUI arrests compared with 617 during the same period last year. a decrease of 0.49 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 621 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 536 during the same time in 2023, an increase of 15.9 percent.

To date, there were 19 fatal crashes, resulting in 21 fatalities (two of which had multiple deaths, one was reclassified as suicide, one reclassified as a medical condition, and one died at a later date), compared with 10 fatal crashes, resulting in 11 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 90 percent for fatal crashes and 90.9 percent for fatalities.