Last Thursday just after 9 a.m., a 26-year-old East Hampton woman, J. Giraldoarenas, driving a 2021 Toyota, was at a stop sign at Stephen Hand’s Path and Cedar Street. She didn’t see another car coming, she later told police, and proceeded through the intersection, colliding head-on with a 2021 Audi S.U.V. driven by 73-year-old Ellen Rae Greenberg, also of East Hampton.
The collision was enough to propel Ms. Greenberg’s S.U.V. into a third car, a 2010 Ford van driven by F. Jeronimo-Juarez of Brentwood, which was stopped at an adjacent stop sign.
Ms. Greenberg experienced abdominal pain and was in a state of shock after the accident. Her 4-year-old passenger, Morgan Zhang-Greenberg, complained of chest pain. Both were taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital by ambulance.
The Toyota and the Audi were both towed by Fireplace Auto Collision. Mr. Jeronimo-Juarez’s van did not need towing.
A man seen running from a crashed Ford Edge on Gardiner Lane in Springs, close to midnight on Jan. 12, prompted a phone call to police, who found the car empty upon arrival. A witness observed the driver, later identified as Darwin Tamay-Collaguazo, 19, running east on Gardiner Lane. Police found no evidence of a crash on that street, and concluded it had happened elsewhere and the car had been ditched.
Inside it, an officer found a driver’s license in the name of Nube Mizhquiri, and went to the address on the license, where he spoke with Ms. Mizhquiri, who said her brother had borrowed the car to go to work.
The same officers were called a while later to another address in Springs, near Maidstone Park, after a resident called to say a drunken man was knocking on his front door. The man was gone when police arrived, but he was back an hour later, trying to get into a Jaguar parked there, and the resident called again. The man was intoxicated, police said, and was sitting inside the car apparently trying to stay warm. The resident, whose name was redacted, did not want to press charges but did ask the officers to take the drunken man home.
While the officers were in the area of Maidstone, they discovered the location of the original accident involving the Ford Edge. According to a police diagram, Mr. Tamay-Collaguazo had been headed northeast on Maidstone Park Road when he swerved across the Flaggy Hole Road intersection and crashed into a utility pole, where police found pieces of the car. After the accident, he drove the Ford two miles south to Gardiner’s Lane and abandoned it. He was not injured. Bonac Buy and Sell towed the Ford to Fireplace Auto on Springs-Fireplace Road.
Deer were involved in five other recent accidents, each of which happened within an hour or so of sunset. None resulted in injuries.
On Feb 15, Vincente Nieto of East Hampton was westbound on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton Village, driving a 2017 Land Rover, when a deer jumped out in front of the car, striking the hood and causing over $1,000 worth of damage. Also that day, about an hour later, 22-year-old Freddy Martinez Acosta was alone in a 2019 Honda, northbound on West Lake Drive in Montauk, when he hit a deer dead-on, causing damage to the front of the car on the driver’s side.
The following evening, Sean Barber of East Hampton, 42, driving a 2018 Ford pickup truck on Cedar Street just south of Fieldview Lane, struck a deer that was trying to cross the road. The front of the truck sustained heavy damage.
On Friday just after 7 p.m., a deer jumped across North Pass Road near Cedar Point County Park in Northwest. Barbara White of East Hampton, who was alone in her 2018 Chevy S.U.V., drove right into it, causing major damage below the driver’s-side headlight.
Finally, on Presidents’ Day around 6 p.m., 41-year-old Lillian Rose Worthy of Montauk was driving with a passenger on East Lake Drive there when she collided with a deer, causing extensive damage to the front and passenger sides of her 2017 BMW S.U.V.
