{"id":4083,"date":"2025-06-22T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4083\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T02:32:11","slug":"woman-in-court-in-hamptons-hit-and-run-death-of-sara-burack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/4083\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in court in Hamptons hit-and-run death of Sara Burack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Virginia woman arrested in the fatal hit-and-run death of\u00a0hot shot Hamptons real estate agent Sara Burack\u00a0thought she\u2019d hit a traffic cone, her lawyer claimed during a Saturday morning court appearance.<\/p>\n

Marine biologist Amanda 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\u00a0Southampton\u00a0Town Justice Court.<\/p>\n

Kempton, 32, choked back tears as 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.<\/p>\n

Amanda Kempton, 32, didn\u2019t see the victim and thought she had hit a traffic cone, her lawyer said. T E McMorrow for NY Post<\/p>\n

Hamptons real estate agent Sara Burack was walking on the side of the road and pulling a large pink suitcase behind her when she was struck. @luxgrouppalmbeach\/Instagram<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The scientist allegedly spent time at a tavern before the Thursday incident in which she allegedly\u00a0mowed down Burack<\/a>\u00a0in Hampton Bays, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Alcohol is not considered a factor in the case, Kempton\u2019s lawyer told the court.<\/p>\n

Burack, 40,\u00a0who\u00a0specialized in high end properties\u00a0and starred in the hit \u201cMillion Dollar Beach House,\u201d\u00a0was walking in the roadway in the westbound lane carrying a pink suitcase when she was struck on Montauk Highway.<\/p>\n

Kempton grew up in Virginia, and holds degrees in microbiology and marine\u00a0biology from George Mason University and Nova Southeastern University in Florida, respectively, according to social media.<\/p>\n

She has been working this year at 4-H\u2019s Camp Jekyll, located on Georgia\u2019s Jekyll Island, according to a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

Kempton, who previously worked for a museum in Bridgehampton, wore an orange sweatshirt and black slacks as her family sat silently in the courtroom.<\/p>\n

A marine biologist, Kempton once worked at the Children\u2019s Museum of the East End. Amanda Kempton\/Facebook<\/p>\n

The area was foggy and Kempton did not see the victim \u2014 believing instead that she had hit a traffic cone, her attorney, William Keahon, told the court.<\/p>\n

She left the scene and went to a friend\u2019s home, where she found Burack\u2019s large, pink, wheeled suitcase lodged underneath her vehicle, Keahon added.<\/p>\n

Authorities used a license plate reader to track Kempton\u2019s movements and found her vehicle, with a damaged front end, at her family\u2019s home, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

Kempton and her family declined comment after the proceeding.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Additional reporting by Brandon Cruz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Virginia woman arrested in the fatal hit-and-run death of\u00a0hot shot Hamptons real estate agent Sara Burack\u00a0thought she\u2019d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,5416,5417,5418,5248,5419,4659,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5420,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-4083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-luxury-real-estate","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-million-dollar-baby","15":"tag-netflix","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-the-hamptons","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-us-news","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724676852187543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}