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Honda Came From Behind

Wed, 02/03/2021 - 16:40

Christine King, 54, of East Hampton was turning left from Springs-Fireplace Road onto Gardiner's Avenue in Springs on the evening of Jan. 27 when a Honda came from behind and tried to pass her. Instead, it collided with her 2015 Ford, she told East Hampton Town police.

Sydney Sessions of Glen Allen, Va., 25, confirmed that she had crossed the double yellow line in trying to pass the Ford, and had run off the road following the collision, into a split-rail fence.

Ms. King was taken to Southampton Stony Brook Hospital by Springs ambulance for bruises to her forehead and released after treatment. Ms. Sessions's car was towed by Fireplace Auto Collision.

Icy roads made for treacherous conditions on Northwest Landing Road, East Hampton, on Jan. 26 at 10:15 a.m., and again on Monday morning at the intersection of Springs-Fireplace Road and Abraham's Path in East Hampton. Neither driver was injured.

Montauk saw two car-deer collisions last week. One happened on Jan. 27 at 4:30 p.m., on Edgemere Street near Industrial Road; the other on Fairview Avenue near South Ferris Street at 8 p.m. last Thursday. Also last Thursday, a deer and a car crossed paths at 7 a.m. on Route 114 near Goodfriend Drive.

Long Days on the Fire Line In Orange County

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters volunteered to head north last week to help fight a 5,000-acre wildfire in Orange County, N.Y., not once but twice, battling unfamiliar terrain to do so. “They fight fires completely differently than we do when we have a brush fire,” the Amagansett chief said.

Nov 21, 2024

Awards for Good Policing in Handgun Scuffle

“It could have gone worse. We’re lucky that I have officers here that weren’t shot,” said Police Chief Jeff Erickson at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting. Chief Erickson was recognizing Sgt. Wayne Gauger and Officers John Clark and Robbie Greene for a traffic stop on Aug. 31 that turned into a scuffle and the eventual confiscation of an illegal gun.

Nov 21, 2024

On the Police Logs 11.21.24

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

Nov 21, 2024

Head-On Collision on Route 27

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

Nov 21, 2024

 

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