During the week of September 2 through September 8, 2024, Hawai`i Island police arrested 21 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Three of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident, while none of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2024, there have been 676 DUI arrests compared with 667 during the same period, an increase of 1.35 percent.

The Hawaiʻi County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 684 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 573 during the same time in 2023, an increase of 19.4 percent.

To date, there were 20 fatal crashes, resulting in 22 fatalities (two of which had multiple deaths, one was reclassified as suicide, one reclassified as a medical condition, and two died at a later date), compared with 11 fatal crashes, resulting in 12 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 81.8 percent for fatal crashes and 83.3 percent for fatalities.