A 23-year-old Cutchogue woman is facing a driving while intoxicated charge in Southampton after she drove through a police road closure at the scene of a serious car accident in Northampton and crashed into an unoccupied police car, according to Southampton Town Police.
Police said Lisa A . Rizzo drove around a flared road closure on County Road 51, past a police officer directing traffic and collided with an unoccupied Southampton Town Police unit at 3:30 a.m. Saturday. She was placed under arrest for DWI and taken to a local area hospital for treatment of minor injuries sustained in the accident, police said.
Police were investigating an earlier single-car accident that seriously injured a 38-year-old Manorville man sometime after 1:30 a.m. He was the driver of a 2005 Prius that was southbound on CR 51 when he lost control of the vehicle, sideswiped the guardrail along the southbound lane, crossed over the median, then the northbound lane of travel before crashing into a tree on the northbound shoulder of the road, according to a Southampton Police press release.
He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, police said. His identity is being withheld pending notification of family, according to the release.
Editor’s note: A criminal charge is an accusation. By law, a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
