The night of Aug. 24 was a busy one for East Hampton Town police, who were called to no fewer than three accidents on local roads.
David Burtka, 45, was driving a 2017 Chrysler registered to his husband, the actor Neil Patrick Harris, when he stopped at a stop sign at the Stephen Hand's Path-Cedar Street intersection, incorrectly thinking, he told police, that it was a four-way stop. He continued driving and hit the side of a 2017 BMW driven by Jonathan Howard, 72, of East Hampton. There was minimal damage to both cars; neither driver was injured. Mr. Burtka and Mr. Harris have a house in Northwest, purchased earlier this summer.
James Gilbert, 25, of New York City was turning left from Old Stone Highway onto Shipyard Lane in Springs, but did not realize, he told police, how fast Neil Falkenhan, 36, was coming on his bicycle. The cyclist clipped the back of Mr. Gilbert's car as it turned, and flew off the bike. He reported pain all over his body and was transported to Southampton Hospital by Amagansett ambulance.
Randolph Scott, 55, of New York City was eastbound on Napeague in a 1973 BMW near Beach Plum Court when, he told police, Matthew Holden's 2019 Mercedes-Benz convertible stopped abruptly in front of him and turned left into the Clam Bar Restaurant without signaling. Mr. Scott said he was forced to swerve into westbound traffic, where he collided with the Mercedes-Benz. Mr. Holden, 41, of Tenafly, N.J., maintained that his signal was indeed on and said he had been driving slowly. His passengers, Briana Holden, 42, Isabella Holden, 7, and Bari Holden, 10, complained of pain and were taken by Amagansett ambulance to Southampton Hospital.
On Aug. 25, Alisa Jaffe was walking on the shoulder of Old House Landing Road near Milina Drive in Springs when a 2017 Ford driven by Edward Kominski, 86, of Sammy's Beach Road in East Hampton, struck her from behind, causing significant injury to her right leg. She was airlifted via helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital. Mr. Kominski admitted to police that he had not given her enough room when passing.
Police filled out a referral form for the Department of Motor Vehicles should Mr. Kominski's "judgement be impaired" by "age/other." This question was perhaps answered by Mr. Kominski's second accident of the day, that evening on Stephen Hand's Path near Buckskill Road. Driving under a train trestle, he again did not leave enough room on his right to fit through the passage, he told police, and hit the bridge's retaining wall. He left his disabled vehicle in the roadway.
Ann-Marie Sanchioli, 69, was walking with and looking at her granddaughter, she told police, on the night of Aug. 26, so did not see Edward Eurell, 63, driving his 2018 GMC pickup truck through the crosswalk at the Plaza in Montauk. Mr. Eurell said he was stopped at a stop sign, preparing to turn right, and was rolling forward without seeing Ms. Sanchioli. The truck made contact with her, and she was taken by Montauk ambulance to Southampton Hospital to be treated for foot pain.
On Friday night, thinking her path was clear, Mary Farry of Sag Harbor, 21, who was stopped in East Hampton at the Skimhampton Road intersection with Route 27, began moving toward the highway, but did not see Theresa Davis's oncoming 2016 Volvo as it entered the intersection. Ms. Farry and Jillian Rennar, 29, her passenger, were taken to the hospital by East Hampton ambulance to be treated for chest pain and minor bleeding from the head, respectively. An Amagansett ambulance took Ms. Davis's passenger, Tennille Treadwell, 55, to the hospital to be treated for head pain.
