Crime & Safety
Motorcyclist Injured In Flanders Crash: Police
The motorcyclist was airlifted with serious injuries, police say.
FLANDERS, NY — A motorcyclist was seriously injured in a Flanders crash Thursday night, police said.
According to Southampton Town Police, at 7:25 p.m., several calls came in regarding a crash between a motorcycle and a vehicle that took place west of Long Neck Blvd. on Flanders Road.
The driver, a 34-year-old man from Speonk, who was driving a 2014 Kia and had a 12-year-old in the car, was stopped in traffic when a Flanders man, 22, who was riding a 1999 Kawasaki motorcycle, rear-ended him, police said.
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The man and child were not harmed, but the motorcyclist was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital by Suffolk County Aviation with serious injuries, police said. The Flanders Fire Department and Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps also responded.
Southampton Town Police detectives responded to conduct an investigation into the crash
and New York State Police were engaged in crash reconstruction, police said.
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No charges have been filed and no criminality is suspected, police said.
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