During the week of December 18, through December 24, 2023, Hawai‘i Island police arrested 18 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Nine of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision, while two of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2023, there have been 935 DUI arrests compared with 962 during the same period in 2022, a decrease of 2.8 percent.

The Hawai‘i County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 831 major collisions thus far in 2023 compared with 824 during the same period last year, an increase of 0.85 percent.

To date, there have been 14 fatal crashes, resulting in 15 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths, and one was reclassified to a medical condition); compared with 30 fatal crashes, resulting in 33 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 54.8 percent for fatal crashes and 54.5 percent for fatalities.