Southampton Man Sentenced for Fatal DWI Crash

By Timothy Bolger Posted on February 27, 2015

A 21-year-old man was sentenced Friday to four to 12 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed a 29-year-old Florida man in the driver’s hometown of Southampton last year.

Jesse Werner Steudte had pleaded guilty before Judge Fernando Camacho at Suffolk County court to charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated.

Prosecutors said Steudte ran a red light before he struck Neil Fyfe, who was crossing County Road 39 at the corner of Sandy Hollow Road on the night of Friday, May 2, 2014.

Fyfe, who was employed as a caddy at a Southampton golf course, was taken to Southampton Hospital, where he died.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.