More than a week after a serious three-car accident on Route 114 in East Hampton, police are still looking for witnesses to help them figure out what happened. The drivers of a Subaru Forester and a Chevrolet utility truck that collided head-on just north of Stephen Hand’s Path on April 16 were both airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, but their injuries were not believed to be life threatening, according to East Hampton Town police.
East Hampton Town police have asked for the public’s help in tracking down a man suspected in a possible abduction attempt of a local boy. A 13-year-old Springs School student walking home last Thursday at about 3:30 p.m. after being dropped off by a school bus told police he had been approached on Springs-Fireplace Road near Teak Lane in Springs by a man driving a white sedan. The car pulled up alongside him, the youth told police, and the driver asked if he wanted a ride home. He declined, but the man persisted, asking him several times to get in the car.
A 13-year-old youth was approached by a man driving a white sedan at about 3:30 on Thursday afternoon. Police have asked that anyone with information phone them at 631-537-7575.
East Hampton Village A call from the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center on Gingerbead Lane reported “a white male subject with a bicycle, in the bushes near the building, urinating.” Police questioned the man, who said “he was walking across the property but did not urinate.” Police warned him that he was trespassing and he bicycled away. A dead swan was found floating in the Hook Pond Dreen by Pondview and Egypt Lanes last Thursday evening.
