Update: Man Charged With Driving While Impaired By Alcohol After Multi-Car Crash On Flanders Road: Police

FLANDERS, NY — Update: 12:51 a.m.: A man was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after a three-vehicle crash on Flanders Road that resulted in multiple injuries, police said.

According to Southampton Town Police, crash took place at 7:03 p.m. Sunday night on Flanders Road near White Brook Drive and involved multiple motor vehicles and injuries.

Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance and Hampton Bays Volunteer Ambulance were requested at the incident location; Flanders Fire Department also responded, police said.

The crash took plae when a 2014 white Nissan Sentra driven by David Williams, 58, of Flanders struck a 2013 Toyota Tacoma driven by Christian Ortiz, 32, of Hampton Bays, head-on in the eastbound lane, police said.

A third vehicle, a 2001 Ford Explorer Sport Trac driven by Dilan Monroy Suret, 36, of Flanders appears to have been involved in a secondary collision with the Nissan, police said.

Williams was transported by Flanders Northampton Ambulance to Stony Brook University Hospital
for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said. Ortiz was transported by Flanders Northampton Ambulance to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Monroy Suret refused medical treatment at the scene and was subsequently found to have been driving while under the influence of alcohol; he was arrested and charged with driving while impaired and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and was held on an outstanding bench warrant for morning
arraignment, police said.

The cause of the collision remains under investigation and anyone with information is asked to contact the Southampton Town Police Detective Division at 631-702-2230.

Original story: Flanders Road was closed Sunday night after a multi-car accident, police said.

Police were still at the scene of the accident, which happened just after 7 on Sunday, and could not yet release information regarding how many people, if any, were injured, authorities said..

Flanders Road was closed from Route 105 to Ludlam Avenue, police said.

No further information was immediately available.

The accident is the third serious crash on Flanders Road in two weeks: Police identified a man killed in a four-vehicle accident on Flanders Road on Monday, Sept. 14 as James Sager, 57, of Babylon.

According to Southampton Police Sgt. Susan Ralph, "We are looking at a possible medical issue. We're not ruling anything out."

The cause of the accident will not be known until police receive a medical examiner's report, she said.

Ralph said Sager was heading west and veered into the eastbound lane, striking three other vehicles; the woman in the third vehicle was hit head-on and was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, she said.

The woman was in stable condition Monday, Ralph said.

Sager was pronounced dead on the scene, she said.

According to Southampton Police Sgt. Susan Ralph, the call came in about the accident at 8:04 p.m.; the crash took place near Fireman's Memorial Park with Flanders Road closed down from Bellows Pond Road to Fanning Avenue to Pleasure Drive.

Police have not yet released the identity of either the person killed or the person airlifted by Suffolk County Aviation.
Southampton Police received assistance from New York State Police, Ralph said; "multiple injuries" were sustained in the crash, although it was not immediately clear how many others were taken to area hospitals, she said.

Hampton Bays Ambulance rescue responded, Ralph said.

Sunday's crash comes just two weeks after another incident on Flanders Road, when a hit-and-run driver fled the scene after striking a pedestrian, police said.

Southampton Town Police and New York State Troopers responded to that scene on Nov. 6 at 6:07 p.m. to 141 Flanders Road in Riverside, where a man was found on the south shoulder of the road, looking as though he'd been hit by a vehicle, police said.

Flanders Ambulance responded to treat the injured man, who was then flown to Stony Brook University Hospital via the Suffolk County Police aviation in serious condition, police said.

Further investigation revealed that an unknown sport utility vehicle had hit the man as he crossed the roadway in a crosswalk near 125 Flanders Road, police said.

The man was hit as he crossed from the north side to the south side of the street, police said.

The vehicle sustained front end passenger side damage of its light cluster and was last seen heading east along Flanders Road while fleeing the scene, police said.

The Southampton Town Police Department's detective division is actively investigating that incident, police said.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Southampton Town Police Department's detective division at 631-702-2230.

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