In Wainscott on Monday night, an alleged drunken driver lost control of his car, which rolled over, injuring his two passengers, including a woman who was partially ejected.
East Hampton Town police, the East Hampton Fire Department, and the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association were called to the single-car crash near the train trestle on Daniel’s Hole Road at about 11:30 p.m. First responders found an older model Buick lying on the driver’s side, up against the tree line of the southbound lane, just south of the overpass.
The driver, Alex McCue of East Hampton, 29, was driving a 1993 Buick when he hit a tree, according to Capt. Chris Anderson of the town police.
The driver was already out of the car when firefighters arrived. A man and a woman were both still in it, Fire Chief Gerard Turza Jr. said Tuesday. The woman, identified by police as 21-year-old Karolina Kurasova, had been partially thrown from the car. Initially, first responders were told that she might have been pinned underneath. The department’s heavy rescue team and the Suffolk County medevac helicopter were requested.
“It was determined that she was not pinned under the vehicle,” Chief Turza said. Firefighters found that the woman, who had been sitting in the back seat, was “violently thrown into the front of the vehicle and was partially ejected out of the front driver side of the vehicle,” he said.
None of the occupants had been wearing seatbelts. None were believed to have life-threatening injuries. “The people are extremely lucky,” Chief Turza said. “They missed a nearby utility pole by inches.” The Buick sustained significant damage, even inside.
Once heavy rescue personnel stabilized the vehicle, both passengers were removed. The village ambulance transported all three to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Police identified the third occupant of the car as Victor Borisov, 31.
Mr. McCue was treated and released into police custody. Captain Anderson said he refused to take a breath test at police headquarters.
East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky arraigned him on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated on Tuesday morning, and released him on his own recognizance.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, Stephen G. Cohen of Brewster, N.Y., was arrested on drunken driving and drug charges in Montauk. Mr. Cohen, who is 34, was driving a 2015 Ford south on West Lake Drive when police reportedly saw him fail to maintain his lane of travel, near Glenmore Avenue, at about 3:50 a.m. He performed poorly on field sobriety tests and was charged with misdemeanor D.W.I. at about 4:15 a.m.
During a search, he was found with two plastic bags containing a white powdery substance, which later tested positive for cocaine. Because the weight was greater than 500 milligrams, he was charged with a felony, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree.
Justice Tekulsky released him on $250 bail.
Back on Aug. 26, a 50-year-old East Hampton man was arrested on a D.W.I. charge after a minor accident on the street where he lives. Wilson Guerrero was driving a 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck on Amagansett Drive East at about 2 a.m. when he rear-ended a 2010 Toyota sedan parked by the side of the road. The Toyota lurched forward and struck a fire hydrant 15 feet east of the collision. Mr. Guerrero reportedly left the scene before reporting the accident to police. There was no apparent damage to the hydrant. Police charged the driver with misdemeanor D.W.I. at 2:45 a.m. Justice Lisa R. Rana arraigned him later that day and released him on $1,500 bail.