During the week of August 19 through August 25, 2024, Hawai`i Island police arrested 22 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant.  Four of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident. None of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far in 2024, there have been 636 DUI arrests compared with 624 during the same period last year,  an increase of 1.9 percent.

The Hawaiʻi County Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 650 major crashes thus far in 2024, compared with 550 during the same time last year, an increase of 18.2 percent.

To date, there were 19 fatal crashes, resulting in 21 fatalities (two of which had multiple deaths, one was reclassified as suicide, one reclassified as a medical condition, and one died at a later date), compared with 10 fatal crashes, resulting in 11 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one died at a later date) for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 90 percent for fatal crashes and 90.9 percent for fatalities.