Hawai`i Police Department
Traffic Services Section
Torey D. Keltner Program Manager
Phone: 961-2305
Media Release
During the week of July 3, 2023, through July 9, 2023, Hawai`i Island police arrested ten (10) motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Two of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision. One of the drivers arrested was under the age of twenty-one.
So far this year, there have been 509 DUI arrests compared with 540 during the same period last year. This is a decrease of 5.7 percent. The numbers of arrests by district were:
| DUI ARRESTS BY DISTRICT | |||
| DISTRICT | WEEKLY TOTAL | YEAR TO DATE | |
| HILO | 4 | 120 | |
| NORTH HILO | 0 | 1 | |
| HAMAKUA | 1 | 4 | |
| SOUTH KOHALA | 0 | 45 | |
| NORTH KOHALA | 1 | 19 | |
| KONA | 2 | 188 | |
| KAU | 0 | 4 | |
| PUNA | 2 | 128 | |
| ISLAND TOTAL | 10 | 509 | |
Hawai’i Police Department’s Traffic Services Section reviewed all updated crashes and found 445 major collisions so far this year compared with 406 during the same period last year, an increase of 9.6 percent.
To date, there have been 9 fatal crashes, resulting in 10 fatalities, (one of which had multiple deaths); compared with 19 fatal crashes, resulting in 21 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths) for the same time last year. This represents a decrease of 52.6 percent for fatal crashes, and 52.4 percent for fatalities.
DUI roadblocks and patrols will continue island wide.
