Two Are Hurt in Crash
A two-vehicle crash at about 3 a.m. on Friday sent two women to the hospital and resulted in the arrest of Sahm Adrangi, 35, on misdemeanor charges of driving while intoxicated and possession of cocaine.
Mr. Adrangi’s 2015 BMW convertible was westbound on Montauk Highway in Amagansett, approaching its intersection with Bluff Road, when it veered into the oncoming lane and collided with a 2012 Ford sport-utility vehicle, according to East Hampton Town police.
Rhina A. Sanchez, 25, the driver of the S.U.V., injured her neck in the crash and was flown by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital. Kelly Mackel, 27, a passenger in the BMW, complained of a head injury and was taken to Southampton Hospital.
Police said each driver claimed that the other had crossed the double yellow line. However, according to a diagram drawn up afterward by the arresting officer, it was Mr. Adrangi’s car that was in the wrong lane at the time of the collision.
Mr. Adrangi, a Manhattan resident, told police that he was driving home from the Surf Lodge in Montauk when the accident happened. “I was driving pretty fast, like 55, 60,” he said. The speed limit on that stretch is 35 miles per hour, police said. An officer wrote him summonses for speeding and lane-changing.
After being arrested, he was patted down, with police allegedly pulling a wallet out of his right back pants pocket. In it, they said, was a plastic bag of cocaine.
“That’s my wallet,” Mr. Adrangi said, “but I don’t know how that got in there.”
At his arraignment Saturday morning, Mr. Adrangi told East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky that he was renting a house on Arbor Path in Amagansett for the season, and asked to defer proceedings so that he could have his attorney, Tad Scharfenberg, present. He had refused to take the breath test at police headquarters, resulting, Justice Tekulsky told him, in the automatic suspension of his driver’s license. Bail was set at $1,000, which was posted.
A motorcyclist who was thrown from his 2016 Harley-Davidson and seriously injured after trying to overtake a car on Route 114 in East Hampton on Saturday was also flown to Stony Brook. Jay Rowe, 42, of East Hampton was treated by the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, which took him to a nearby ball field at the Ross School on Goodfriend Drive, where the helicopter landed.
Mr. Rowe, who remained in critical condition as of yesterday, has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs and unlawful possession of marijuana. Wendy Zoland, 65, of Mamaroneck, N.Y., whose 2013 Acura was turning left about 800 feet north of Goodfriend Drive when the motorcycle struck her car, was not hurt. She had several passengers, one of whom, a child, was taken to Southampton Hospital for minor injuries.
At about 9:30 on Friday night, policereceived a call that a man was slumped behind the wheel of a 1992 Porsche convertible in the Viking Fleet parking lot in Montauk. When an officer responded, the car was gone, but another officer spotted it and pulled it over, leading to the arrest of Chris W. Layton, 50, of Franklin Lakes, N.J., on a charge of aggravated drunken driving. Mr. Layton’s breath test at police headquarters in Wainscott reportedly produced a reading of .29 of 1 percent.
Mr. Layton, who said in court that he had been visiting a friend for the weekend, deferred his arraignment until his next court appearance, on Sept. 1. Bail of $1,000 was posted.
An accident in the parking lot behind the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett led to the third D.W.I. arraignment in Justice Court Saturday morning. Police said Sara K. Chapman, 25, of Southampton had backed her 2010 Chevrolet pickup truck into another vehicle and driven away.
Two witnesses called 911, and Ms. Chapman was stopped within minutes. Police noted that she had a learner’s permit, but no driver’s license. She was released Saturday on $250 bail.
Bert W. Leland of Springs, 56, was stopped on Springs-Fireplace Road late Sunday afternoon for a moving violation and charged with D.W.I. after his breath test produced a reading of .08.
Police said they found quantities of three controlled narcotic drugs on him, including oxycodone, methadone hydrochloride, and oxycontin, and charged him also with three counts of possession. A computer check reportedly showed that his insurance had lapsed, they added. Mr. Leland, a longtime resident of the community, was released Monday without bail, but with a future date on Justice Tekulsky’s criminal calendar.