Driver in Wednesday Night Crash Charged with DWI

According to Suffolk County Police a man involved in a , which resulted in hospitalizations of two individuals, was charged with DWI following the accident.

Thomas Seaton, 45, of Coram, was charged according to police, after his 2004 Jeep struck another car at the intersection of 25A and Miller Place Road. 

The accident shut down the stretch on Route 25A for a half hour, and the Miller Place Fire Department was forced to remove one of the victims from a car using the "jaws of life."

One commenter Miller Place-Rocky Point Patch said his mother was on the receiving end of the crash, and that she will need multiple surgeries to recover. However an email to the commenter verifying the statement was unreturned.

An assistant chief with the Miller Place Fire Department called the intersection on Wednesday night "one of the busiest for accidents in Suffolk County."

While countywide information was not immediately available, a 2010 study of Mt. Sinai through Shoreham cited Miller Place as particularly accident-prone.

"The number of vehicular crashes is high in Miller Place relative to the other hamlets in the study area," the report states.

It goes on to single out the Miller Place Road-Route 25A intersection as one of the most - if not the most - dangerous intersections in the area. According to the report, the scene of Wednesday night's accident was host to the most injuries during the study's window period: 22 reported from Aug. 1, 2006 through July 31, 2009, out of 53 total accidents.

Improved speed enforcement and traffic signaling on Route 25A were two suggestions offered in the report to prevent future accidents.