September 2, 2021 The death of Devesh Samtani, an 18-year-old summer visitor who had been struck by a car while walking on the side of the road in Amagansett at night last month, was an avoidable tragedy. Attention was initially focused on the 19-year-old part-time Montauk resident whose car struck Mr. Samtani then drove away. […]

By Bella Lewis September 2, 2021   When family and friends speak of Devesh Samtani, the 18-year-old who died of his injuries three days after being struck by a car in an Aug. 10 hit-and-run accident in Amagansett, they use words like bright, charming, and loving. He was supposed to be starting school at New York

By Christine Sampson August 25, 2021 He was having a panic attack and didn’t know what to do, Daniel Campbell wrote in a seven-page statement to police a few hours after he struck Devesh Samtani, 18, of Hong Kong, while driving on a dark but crowded road in Amagansett to drop off his sister and her friends

By Matthew Chayes August 20, 2021 The alleged hit-and-run driver in last week’s crash that killed a Hamptons partygoer told police that”I freaked out” before fleeing and “I thought I killed him,” according to a criminal complaint. At an arraignment Thursday on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious

The teenage victim of an Aug. 10 hit-and-run in Amagansett died on Friday from head injuries sustained in the accident.  Devesh Samtani, 18, of Hong Kong, had been headed to a party at 37 Timber Trail in Amagansett on Aug. 10. Some 800 to 1,000 people had gathered there by the time police arrived to break it up, East Hampton

By Matthew Chayes August 17, 2021 Eighteen-year-old Devesh Samtani of Hong Kong had just flown in for his freshman year at New York University. But first, he and 13 family members were summering together in the Hamptons. “As soon as he landed in New York, he came out east, and the plan was to be