9-27-22 DUI Stats

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

Media Release

During the week of September 19, 2022, through September 25, 2022, Hawai’i Island police arrested 18 motorists for driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Three of the drivers were involved in a traffic accident. None of the drivers were under the age of 21.

So far this year, there have been 737 DUI arrests compared with 785 during the same period last year, a decrease of 6.1 percent. The numbers of arrests by district were:

DUI Arrests by District
DistrictWeekly TotalYear to Date
    
Hāmākua0 7
North Hilo1 4
South Hilo5 210
Puna0 155
Ka’ū0 7
Kona9 263
South Kohala3 62
North Kohala0 29
    
Island Total18 737

There have been 601 major accidents so far this year compared with 584 during the same period last year, an increase of 2.9 percent.

To date, there were 25 fatal crashes (one fatal crash reclassified on 05/30/22 due to a medical condition) resulting in 27 fatalities (one of which had multiple deaths, and one reclassified due to a medical condition), compared with 18 fatal crashes, resulting in 18 fatalities for the same time last year. This represents an increase of 38.9 percent for fatal crashes, and 50 percent for fatalities.


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