Late last Thursday afternoon, Gayle Aaronson of Montauk, 59, was stopped in traffic on Montauk Highway near Amagansett just west of Abraham’s Path when her 2016 Honda S.U.V. was rear-ended by a blue “newer-style” Range Rover.
Ms. Aaronson got out and asked the man at the wheel to pull off the highway and onto the shoulder, but, she told police, he ignored her and drove away. She complained of a head injury, but declined medical attention.
As reports of crimes of a sexual nature have apparently increased, those cases have drawn attention — not only because of their brutality, but also because allegations of abuse strike at deeply held assumptions about safety in a place that has seen itself as insulated from such offenses.
Two bicyclists were injured on local roads last Thursday in separate incidents.
After charging a Springs man with misdemeanor drunken driving on Sunday, East Hampton Town police added a more serious drug charge.
A Brooklyn woman who came here to visit a friend for the weekend instead spent the weekend in jail after East Hampton Village police recovered a large number of items stolen from the Ralph Lauren Double RL clothing store on Main Street and arrested the woman they say stole them all.
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