This is a tradition they don’t want to keep.
A Manhattan shrink and her 6-year-old son were hospitalized in serious condition after a head-on collision with a drunken driver in East Hampton, cops said.
Bizarrely, the crash occurred nearly a year to the day after Elizabeth Krimendahl, 53, and son Teddy were struck by a Jeep while crossing a street in Sag Harbor, though they escaped that one with only minor injuries.
William Hurley, 60, of Sag Harbor, allegedly swerved across Route 114 at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday, smashing his Toyota pickup truck into Krimendahl’s BMW sedan.
Hurley was charged with driving while intoxicated and was also hospitalized in serious condition, cops said.
Krimendahl, a divorcée who owns a house in Bridgehampton and an apartment on the Upper East Side, is the director of clinical services at the prestigious William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology.
The institute offers psychoanalytic training and low-cost therapy at its swanky townhouse off Central Park West.
A worker at the Kitchen M restaurant near Krimendahl’s apartment described her as a regular customer and a “very nice, respectful woman.”
“She always greets everyone and says ‘Hello.’ Sometimes she has her little boy with her, she’ll buy him a pastry or something,” said Jocelyn Hernandez.
“I hope she is OK, she really is a pleasant person.”