On local roads in the last 10 days, a total of six people were taken to the hospital after car crashes.
In East Hampton, just before 10 p.m. on Oct. 24, four teenage girls sustained minor injuries on North Main Street at Cedar Street. The drivers involved, a girl from New York City and another from East Hampton, were both 17; each had a teenage passenger in her car. The teen from the city, driving a 2017 Volkswagen, claimed that the local teen, in a 2015 Honda, pulled out suddenly in front of her from a parking space on the side of the street.
Hammer Towing removed both cars from the scene after the four girls were taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
In Montauk earlier that day, Frank Sofo of East Hampton, 80, driving a 2022 Subaru minivan on Montauk Highway near Lincoln Road in Montauk, “suffered a medical episode,” police said, and struck a tree. A Montauk ambulance transported him to the hospital to be evaluated for a head injury and “incoherent” speech. Marshall and Sons towed the minivan.
On Sunday, Jose Topsequen, 37, was charged with a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated following a 7 p.m. crash that landed him in the hospital with a bleeding head injury. Mr. Topsequen, who gave police two addresses, one in Riverhead and one in East Hampton, was headed east on Pantigo Road near Fredericka Lane when he ran into the back of an unoccupied, parked Land Rover.
He was charged with first-offense D.W.I. and three traffic violations, including consumption of an alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle. “I drank four beers today,” Mr. Topsequen told police after he failed field sobriety tests, according to their report. He was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, where he consented to a blood test.
He is to be arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court on Wednesday. Rapid Recovery hauled away his 2003 Nissan.