TIVERTON — The police believe that a New York man was drunk when he crashed his Jaguar late last week on Nannaquaket Road, killing his female passenger.

Brian T. Fiske, 46, of 61 Filken St., Fairport, N.Y., was arraigned Sunday at Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, where he was recovering from an arm injury suffered during the high-speed crash, according to Tiverton Deputy Police Chief Nicholas Maltais.

Fiske was released from the hospital later in the day, and was held Sunday night at the Adult Correctional Institutions, in Cranston, after failing to post the $100,000 surety bail, Maltais said yesterday.

Fiske was charged with driving under the influence, death resulting, and driving to endanger, death resulting. Both are felonies.

Driving a 1999 Jaguar southbound on Nannaquaket Road last Thursday at about 9:30 p.m., Fiske’s car left the road north of Leonard Drive, Maltais said. Fiske hit a drainage culvert, went up on a lawn at 299 Nannaquaket Rd., struck a tree and continued south, grazing two ornamental stone walls on the north and south sides of Leonard Drive.

Fiske’s car came to a stop several hundred feet from where it initially left the road, Maltais said.

A passenger, Elizabeth H. Ahearn, 59, of 2002 Main Rd., Westport, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Maltais said that although Fiske has a New York address, he had been staying in Westport for some time.

Tiverton police consulted the attorney general’s office before charging Fiske, according to Maltais.