During the week of October 28 through November 3, 2024, Hawai`i Island police arrested sixteen motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Nine 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 814 DUI arrests compared with 805 during the same period last year,  an increase of 1.12 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 832 major crashes so far this year, compared with 711 during the same time last year, an increase of 17 percent.

To date, there were 23 fatal crashes, resulting in 25 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 13 fatal crashes, resulting in 14 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, one died at a later date, and one crash reclassified as a medical condition) for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 76.9 percent for fatal crashes and 78.6 percent for fatalities.