HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is urging everyone who uses the state’s roads to drive, walk and ride with care after the number of traffic deaths this year passed last year’s total.
As of Thursday, Oct. 24, 106 people have died in traffic crashes across the islands. That is already higher than the 102 total deaths recorded in all of 2024.
The deaths include drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists, bicyclists, scooter riders and people using other ways to travel, such as skateboards and Utility Task Vehicles…