Crime & Safety

Police: Drunk Sayville Man Drives Wrong Way on Sunrise Highway, Strikes Two Vehicles

Police arrest Scott Coutts Saturday evening; no one seriously injured in crashes.

A Sayville man was arrested for driving while intoxicated Saturday evening after he drove the wrong way on the Sunrise Highway Service Road in Bohemia, Suffolk County Police said.

Scott Coutts, 40, was driving his Buick Skyhawk southbound on Oakdale-Bohemia Road around 6:20 p.m. when he made an eastbound turn into the westbound lanes of the service road and struck a Chevrolet SUV that was stopped at a red light, police said. 

Coutts continued eastbound in the westbound lane for a short distance before he turned his vehicle around and began to travel in the correct direction, police said.

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Coutts then struck a Ford F150 and continued westbound on the service road before he crashed into a snow bank near the Pond Road intersection in Bohemia, where he was stopped by police. 

There were no serious injuries sustained in the crashes, police said. 

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Coutts was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. He was also issued numerous Vehicle and Traffic Law summonses, police said. 

Coutts was being held in jail overnight Saturday and is scheduled to be arraigned Sunday in First District Court in Central Islip.

Coutts' arrest comes amid a spate of wrong-way driver incidents on Long Island in recent months. An East Setauket man after driving the wrong way on Sunrise Highway in Sayville.  


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