Woman Thrown from Moped in Montauk
Emergency medical technicians with the Montauk Fire Department loaded a woman into an ambulance after she was thrown from her moped in Montauk on Monday afternoon.
T.E. McMorrow
A Patchogue woman was taken to Southampton Hospital on Monday afternoon after being thrown from a Schwinn moped she was riding on South Emerson Avenue in Montauk.
The name of 34-year-old victim was not available from East Hampton Town police.
Two police officers stationed in Montauk, along with Vincent Franzone, the first assistant chief of the Montauk Fire Department, were among the first on the scene, and treated the victim in the back of a police department vehicle before the arrival of an ambulance. Emergency medical technicians took over treatment of the woman, who suffered multiple abrasions and complained of having difficulty breathing.
The accident occurred outside the Royal Atlantic Hotel, where the woman was staying.