A serial drunken driver was busted for at least the fifth time — after speeding the wrong way down a Long Island road and playing chicken with terrified motorists before crashing into a car, authorities said yesterday.
Natalie Leontiev, 38, fled the chaotic scene along the Sunrise Highway service road in her Honda SUV and was found a short time later in her Holtsville home — “unsteady on her feet,” stinking of booze and with bloodshot, bleary eyes, according to cops.
Leontiev, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, should never have been on the road, prosecutors said during her arraignment yesterday in a Central Islip court.
Her license was revoked after her last DWI.
The woman has two open drunken-driving cases on Long Island, including a January 2012 arrest in Nassau County for aggravated DWI, reckless driving, speeding and throwing refuse on the highway.
She also has a December 2011 drunken-driving collar in Suffolk County that includes failure to stay in one lane.
And her rap sheet includes a 2010 arrest for drunken driving in Connecticut, a 2009 arrest in Hollidaysburg, Pa., for harassment, and a 2006 drunken-driving conviction in Queens, according to prosecutors and public records.
On Friday, Leontiev was heading west in the eastbound lane of the highway near her office at Brookhaven Family Medicine at around 8 p.m.
Frightened drivers were trying to get around Leontiev and out of her way, Assistant District Attorney Maria Troulakis told the judge during Leontiev’s arraignment.
Leontiev drove off after the collision, but her freedom was short-lived.
She was charged with DWI, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated unlicensed operation.
Judge Paul Hensley slapped her with another license suspension because she refused to take a breath test after her latest arrest.
Hensley wasn’t having any of it when her lawyer tried to defend his client.
“These are just allegations at this point,” Legal Aid lawyer Jeremy Mis told the judge.
Hensley snapped back: “These are very, very serious allegations.”
He ordered Leontiev held at the Suffolk County Jail on a $40,000 cash bail or $120,000 bond.