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Driver Watched in Horror

Thu, 04/14/2022 - 11:43

On April 6, James Maringo of Mastic, 46, was driving a 2003 Oshkosh Cement truck north on Swamp Road, just past Edwards Hole Road in East Hampton, when he heard a strange sound, like “rushing air,” he later told police.

Looking out his side-view mirror, he watched in horror as the cement drum of the truck broke off the bed of the vehicle. As the large drum detached from its place, the momentum caused the truck to roll over onto its left side. Mr. Maringo was shaken up but somehow uninjured in the accident; the truck had to be towed.

Later that same afternoon, Delilah Desmond of Montauk, 18, was driving on Accabonac Road in Springs, just south of Rosemarie’s Lane, when she lost control of her 1997 Honda on a curve. She struck a tree, injuring her right hand.

An Amagansett Fire Department paramedic was there to examine her, and suggested she go to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. She did so, by private transportation.

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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