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Dix Hills LIE crash: One person injured, driver charged with DWI

A suspected drunk driver was arrested on Saturday after colliding with another car on the Long Island Expressway at Dix Hills, seriously injuring a passenger in the vehicle, according to Suffolk Police.

Sargunvir Sondhi, 26, of Dix Hills, was allegedly driving a 2019 Mercedes Benz eastbound on the Long Island Expressway near Exit 51 when his car struck the back of a 2015 Nissan Sentra at 5:07 a.m., the sources said police with.

A passenger in the Nissan, Irene Weitz, 63, of Plainview, was taken to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip with serious injuries, police said. Weitz’s husband, Howard Weitz, also 63, was driving the Nissan and was unharmed, police said.

Sondhi also escaped injury. He was charged with drunk driving and is being held overnight in the Third Precinct, police said.

He will be charged in the First Circuit Court in Central Islip on Sunday, police said. It is unclear whether he will be represented by a lawyer.

All lanes of the expressway were closed after the accident but have since been reopened, police said.

The vehicles were confiscated for security checks. Detectives are asking anyone with information about the crash to call Second Squad at 631-854-8252.

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