During the week of November 27 through December 3, 2023, Hawaiʻi Island police arrested 12 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Four of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision while one of the drivers was under the age of twenty-one.

So far in 2023, there have been 865 DUI arrests compared with 907 during the same period last year,  a decrease of 4.6 percent.

The Hawai’i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 777 major collisions so far this year compared with 771 during the same period last year, an increase of 0.8 percent.

To date, there have been 15 fatal crashes, resulting in 16 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 30 fatal crashes, resulting in 32 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one was reclassified to a medical condition) for the same time last year. This represents a decrease of 50 percent for fatal crashes, and 50 percent for fatalities.