During the week of December 16, through December 22, 2024, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 19 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Seven 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 942 DUI arrests compared with 930 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.3 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 963 major crashes so far in 2024, compared with 830 during the same time last year, an increase of 16 percent.

To date, there were 25 fatal crashes, resulting in 28 fatalities, compared with 14 fatal crashes, resulting in 15 fatalities for the same time last year. (The year to date fatal crashes is revised deleting one fatal crash on 11/09/2024 which was inadvertently added as a multiple crash that had multiple deaths in its place.) This represents an increase of 78.6 percent for fatal crashes and 86.7 percent for fatalities.

In 2024, the non-traffic fatality count (not on a public roadway) is one, compared to zero non-traffic fatalities for the same time last year.