19-Year-Old Woman Crawls Out of Crashed Jeep Before Massive Fire at Golf Course

SETAUKET, NY – A 19-year-old woman crawled to safety after her Jeep crashed into the side of a building at St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Setauket, sparking a massive fire Tuesday evening.

According to Suffolk Police, Alyssa Chaikin, of Stony Brook, was traveling east on Sheep Pasture Road at about 5:40 p.m. when she lost control of her 2003 Jeep Liberty on the wet pavement. The Jeep struck a wooden guardrail, went through a chain-link fence and down an embankment before crashing into golf course building at 134 Lower Sheep Pasture Road, police said.

The Jeep and the building caught fire. The building, which housed a bathroom and was used for selling refreshments, was destroyed in the blaze.

Chaikin was able to crawl out of the vehicle and was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital via a Setauket Fire Department ambulance with non-life threatening injuries.

There was no one in the building or on the golf course at the time. The investigation is continuing.