8-09-22 DUI Stats

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

Media Release

During the week of August 1, 2022, through August 7, 2022, Hawai`i Island police arrested 16 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Two of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident. One of the drivers was under the age of 21.  

So far this year, there have been 613 DUI arrests compared with 684 during the same period last year, a decrease of 10.4 percent. The numbers of arrests by district were:

DUI Arrests by District
DistrictWeekly Total Year to Date
    
Hāmākua0 5
North Hilo0 3
South Hilo5 175
Puna4 131
Ka’ū0 6
Kona6 226
South Kohala1 48
North Kohala0 19
    
Island Total16 613

There have been 480 major accidents so far this year compared with 474 during the same period last year, an increase of 1.3 percent.

To date, there were 23 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 5/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 25 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one of which was reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 13 fatal crashes, resulting in 13 fatalities for the same time last year. This represents is an increase of 76.9 percent for fatal crashes, and 92.3 percent for fatalities.

DUI roadblocks and patrols will continue island wide.


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