Crime & Safety

3 Sustain Serious Injuries In Flanders Crash: Police

One of the drivers was extricated from a vehicle, police say.

FLANDERS, NY — Three people were seriously injured in a Flanders crash Monday afternoon, police said.

According to Southampton Town police, the two-vehicle crash took place at 3:40 p.m. on Flanders Road.

Southampton Town Police patrol officers, community response unit officers and detectives responded to investigate the scene, officials said.

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Flanders-Northampton Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Stony Brook University Hospital Ambulance and the Flanders Fire Department responded to extricate one of the drivers and transport two patients by ground to Stony Brook University Medical Center and one to Peconic Bay Medical Center, officials said.

No criminality is suspected at this time, police said.

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Flanders Road was closed between Bellows Pond Road and Long Neck Boulevard for the crash investigation; Flanders Road was reopened at 5:46 p.m., police said.

Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to contact the Southampton Town Police Department's detective division at 631-728-3400 or 631-702-2230.

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