10-04-23 DUI Stats

Hawai`i Police Department
Traffic Services Section
Torey D. Keltner Program Manager
Phone: (808) 961-2305

Media Release

During the week of September 25, 2023, through October 1, 2023, Hawai`i Island police arrested 21 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Five of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision. Three of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far this year, there have been 725 DUI arrests compared with 746 during the same period last year, a decrease of 2.7 percent. The numbers of arrests by district were:

DUI ARRESTS BY DISTRICT
DISTRICTWEEKLY TOTAL YEAR TO DATE
HILO5 177
NORTH HILO0 2
HĀMĀKUA0 6
SOUTH KOHALA2 63
NORTH KOHALA1 29
KONA6 268
KA‘Ū1 6
PUNA6 174
ISLAND TOTAL21 725

Hawai’i Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 627 major collisions so far this year compared with 619 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.3 percent. 

To date, there have been 13 fatal crashes, resulting in 14 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 25 fatal crashes, resulting in 27 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 48 percent for fatal crashes, and 48.1 percent for fatalities.    

To date, the non-traffic fatality count (not on a public roadway) so far this year is one compared to zero non-traffic fatalities for the same time last year.

DUI roadblocks and patrols will continue island wide.


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