During the week of October 3 through October 9, 2022, Hawai’i Island police arrested 18 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Twelve of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident while one of the drivers was under the age of 21.

So far in 2022 there have been 764 DUI arrests compared with 823 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 7.2 percent.

There have been 638 major accidents thus far in 2022 compared with 611 during the same period last year, an increase of 4.4 percent.

To date, there were 26 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 05/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 28 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 20 fatal crashes, resulting in 20 fatalities for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 30 percent for fatal crashes, and 40 percent for fatalities.