Woman Airlifted After Crash With Propane Truck

A woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital Friday afternoon following an automobile accident at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Old Montauk Highway in Montauk. 

Ed Ecker, the public information officer for the Montauk Fire Department, said the woman's vehicle was turning from Old Montauk Highway onto Montauk Highway when it was clipped by an eastbound propane truck. The accident occured at 3:53 p.m. 

"She had significant injuries," Mr. Ecker said, though he said she was conscious and alert. The Montauk Fire Department's ambulance company treated her and called a Suffolk County Police medevac helicopter to take her to Stony Brook University Hospital, the nearest level-one trauma center. It landed in a town-owned field in Amagansett. 

A second ambulance took another person involved in the accident to Southampton Hospital. 

Although traffic was rerouted for a short period, it was "backed up quite a bit east and west," according to Mr. Ecker, who was among the department's fire police officers directing traffic off Montauk Highway.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the accident. No further information was immediately available.