HCC §24-154
Running from police in a vehicle is illegal
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This law says drivers must stop when a police officer or police car gives a visual or audible signal to pull over. It is illegal to speed away, hide by turning off lights, or drive recklessly to escape. Doing so can endanger people and is a serious offense.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Fleeing from police officer prohibited
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No operator of a vehicle, after having received a visual or audible signal from a traffic officer or police vehicle, shall knowingly flee or attempt to elude any traffic officer by wilful or wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the police vehicle or the traffic officer or other vehicles or pedestrians, nor shall the operator increase the speed of the operator’s vehicle or extinguish the lights of the operator’s vehicle in an attempt to elude or flee.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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