Amanda Kempton, 32 year old Virginia woman arrested in hit and run of Sara Burack Netflix Hamptons realtor as she faces felony charges
##Update: Amanda Kempton a 32 year old Virginia woman was arrested Friday in the hit and run fatality of Hamptons realtor, Sara Buck, 40 during the early morning hours of Thursday.
Following her arrest, Kempton was charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, a class D felony punishable by up to seven years in prison, according to the Southampton Town Police Department.
Sara Burack, 40, was killed by the hit-and-run driver during the early morning hours of Thursday, just before 3 a.m, with reports describing her as a high profile real estate agent specializing in upmarket properties and who had a roster of rich and famous clientele.
Amanda Kempton Virginia driver leaves Hamptons realtor to die in hit and run
The realtor had previously been featured on popular Netflix show ‘Million Dollar Beach House’ in 2020.
Burack was transported to nearby Stony Brook University Hospital was later pronounced dead.
Southampton Town Police Detectives and a New York State Police Accident Reconstruction Unit investigated the scene, according to Dan’s Papers.
During a Saturday court morning appearance, Kempton, a marine biologist, claimed through her lawyer that she thought she’d hit a traffic cone.
Kempton pleaded not guilty and was released from police custody after her family, who live in Manorville, put up collateral in lieu of $100,000 bail, officials said during her arraignment in Southampton Town Justice Court.
Amanda Kempton hit and run driver tracked back to her parent’s home in Virginia
Prosecutor MacDonald Drane requested the high bail, describing her as a flight risk who fled the scene and who had been set to return to Virginia Saturday for a wedding, the nypost reported.
She faces seven years in prison on a felony charge of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident in which there is a fatality.
The scientist allegedly spent time at a tavern before the Thursday incident in which she allegedly mowed down Burack in Hampton Bays, prosecutors said.
Alcohol is not considered a factor in the case, Kempton’s lawyer told the court.
Burack was walking in the roadway in the westbound lane carrying a pink suitcase when she was struck on Montauk Highway.
The area was foggy and Kempton did not see the victim — believing instead that she had hit a traffic cone, her attorney, William Keahon, told the court.
She left the scene and went to a friend’s home, where she found Burack’s large, pink, wheeled suitcase lodged underneath her vehicle, Keahon added.
Authorities used a license plate reader to track Kempton’s movements and found her vehicle, with a damaged front end, at her family’s home, prosecutors said.
