Scarleth Urgiles never came home.

The 19-year-old was about to graduate from East Hampton High School and hoped to join the military. Before any of that, her weeping mother, Gabriela Basantes, said Tuesday, she was supposed to come home Sunday night to get the birthday cake she'd baked for a friend.

But police said that Urgiles was among eight people in a Toyota Camry that flipped and smashed into a tree on Old Stone Highway in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs around 7:40 p.m. Sunday. She died at the scene, the only fatality in the crash that sent most of the vehicle’s other occupants to area hospitals and the driver to jail, accused by police of driving while intoxicated. 

"I told her to come home soon," Basantes said in an interview, speaking at the family home. "And she never returned to the house. And I want justice, because it’s not fair that she lost her life this way," said Basantes, whose full name, according to public records, is Gabriela Samaniego-Basantes. She had moved her family to the United States from Ecuador 1½ years ago, seeking a better life for Urgiles and her siblings. But, she said, "I couldn’t take care of her."

Another passenger, an 18-year-old from East Hampton, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was in serious but stable condition. Five others were transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by East Hampton and Amagansett ambulances.

Seven of the eight people on the car were East Hampton High School students and the driver was an East Hampton High graduate, according to East Hampton schools Superintendent Adam Fine.

The driver, Luis Gonzalo Barrionuevo-Fuertes, 18, of Moriches, had been drinking during an earlier visit to the beach, prosecutors said. He was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra’s Law, as well as with driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a child. At least one of the car’s occupants was 15, according to charging documents. Leandra’s Law makes it a felony to drive while intoxicated with a passenger under age 16 in a vehicle.

The officer who arrested Barrionuevo-Fuertes said in charging documents obtained by Newsday Tuesday that his eyes were "bloodshot and watery, and his speech was slurred."

Barrionuevo-Fuertes pleaded not guilty at a Monday arraignment where bail was set at $400,000 cash, $800,000 bond or $1.5 million in partial bonds. His lawyer, Melissa Aguanno, said that her client was "devastated ... This is an absolute tragedy."

Jeffrey Sheehan, who lives a few houses down from the crash, said in an interview Tuesday that he’d realized Sunday night "that there was a horrible accident" when he spotted emergency vehicles from his driveway. "It's horrible, and it's just like, you can feel it," said Sheehan, the father of a young woman about Urgiles’ age.

An online fundraiser set up to pay for Urgiles’ funeral expenses gave her full name as Scarleth Milena Urgiles Samaniego and said she was survived by her mother and her brother, Jack Urgiles.

One of the donors, Beni Shoshi, an East Hampton builder, said he did not know the family but "I have a son, 16. They’re all at that juvenile age and people make mistakes. It’s a tragic loss to everyone."