Cops Say One Driver Struck 5 Cars in Bridgehampton

An alleged drunken driver crashed into five cars parked along a quarter-mile stretch of Main Street in Bridgehampton Wednesday evening, Southampton Town police said.

Officers arrested Frances Russo, 56, of Bridgehampton on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated after she allegedly lost control of a 2015 Volkswagen Jetta. She first sideswiped a vehicle near the Bridgehampton Commons and then did the same to several more vehicles, including one outside Bobby Van's restaurant, blowing out a tire on the Jetta, police said. The last to be hit was an Audi pickup truck parked near Corwith Avenue. Several of the cars were badly damaged.

Brian DeSesa and his wife, Kelly DeSesa, were at World Pie on Main Street with their 2-year-old daughter. "We were paying our bill. We were about to leave," Mr. DeSesa said, when he saw the Jetta plow into his wife's 2016 Audi Q5 pickup, which was parked across the street. The pickup appears to have been totaled, Mr. DeSesa said, adding that if the crash had occurred five minutes later, his family would have been in harm's way.

Ms. Russo was arrested and taken to Southampton Hospital by a Bridgehampton Fire Department ambulance. She was admitted for treatment of undisclosed but non-life-threatening injuries and released from custody, police said. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Southampton Town Justice Court on Nov. 9.

Police did not say whether Ms. Russo consented to have blood drawn at the hospital to test its alcohol level.