During the week of November 7 through November 13, 2022, Hawai’i Island police arrested 15 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Six of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident and one of the drivers was under the age of 21.

So far in 2022, there have been 861 DUI arrests compared with 943 during the same period in 2021, a decrease of 8.7 percent.

There have been 717 major accidents thus far in 2022 compared with 697 during the same period last year, an increase of 2.9 percent.

To date, there have been 31 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 05/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 33 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 23 fatal crashes, resulting in 23 fatalities for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 34.8 percent for fatal crashes, and 43.5 percent for fatalities.