Wrong Way Driver Charged With DWI After Head-On 3-Car Crash: Cops

FLANDERS, NY — An East Hampton mother and her daughter, 14, were seriously injured after they were hit head-on by a wrong way driver in Flanders by a man who has been charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.

He then went on to hit a second vehicle head-on, police said.

According to Southampton Town Police, on Friday at 9:21 p.m., several calls came in regarding a multi-vehicle crash on County Road 105 between Flanders Road and Riverside Drive.

Southampton Town Police and New York State Police responded to the scene. Edgar Juarez-Velasquez, 28, of Flanders, was driving a 2004 Ford north in the southbound lane of Country Road 105 when he crashed head-on into a 2009 Honda sedan driven by Yanilsa Munoz, 49, of East Hampton, police said. Munoz and a female juvenile passenger in the vehicle were trapped inside, police said.

Juarez-Velasquez then hit a third vehicle head-on, a 2017 Toyota SUV driven by Juan Caal, 31, of Flanders, police said.

Bill Wilkinson, chief of the Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps, said the juvenile in the car was 14 years old, and Munoz' daughter. When Juarez-Velasquez hit the third car, driven by Caal, it caught fire, Wilkinson said.

"The first arriving police officer was able to pull the driver from the burning car," he said.

Munoz and her daughter were transported via Suffolk County Police aviation to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries, police said. Caal was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Juarez-Velasquez was transported to Peconic Bay Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries and was subsequently charged with DWI, police said.

New York State Police assisted the Southampton Town Police Department's detective division with conducting accident reconstruction, police said.

Anyone with information or who witnessed the crash is asked to call Southampton Town Police detectives at 631-702-2230.