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Deer in the Headlights

Thu, 11/12/2020 - 09:03

Late afternoon and evening continue to be dangerous times for both drivers and deer. There were eight collisions between them, mostly on Montauk Highway, last week.

Town police reported two accidents at 5 p.m., one in Wainscott, at the Wainscott Stone Road intersection with Montauk Highway on Nov. 2, and the other on Saturday in Amagansett, on Bluff Road near the highway. Two others occurred around 11 p.m., one on Sagg Road near Merchants Path in Sagaponack on Nov. 2 and the other in Montauk at the intersection of East Flamingo Avenue and Kirk Avenue on Sunday.

Another car on Nov. 2 met a deer at 7 p.m. on Montauk Highway in Amagansett near Bunker Hill Road. There were two car-deer meetings at 3 p.m. on Nov. 3, both on the highway, one near Maple Lane in East Hampton and the other near Daniels Hole Road in East Hampton. Another reported deer-car accident happened Nov. 4 on Main Street in East Hampton Village at 1 in the afternoon.

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Someone stole a plaster elephant statue from outside the front door of an apartment on Montauk Highway in Amagansett. The resident told police that she had an idea of who stole the statue, but the accused denied taking it.

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911 Switch Is Delayed

When contract negotiations for 911 dispatching broke down between East Hampton Town and Village last spring, it became clear that the East Hampton Town Police Department would begin taking the bulk of 911 calls in the township from the village. The turnover was to occur on Jan. 1, but it has now been delayed for at least a month.

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“Unwanted guests” were trying to take his belongings and refusing to leave, a Brandywine Drive, Sag Harbor, resident reported to 911 last Thursday, adding that one of them wouldn’t wake up and “may have overdosed.”

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Teen Is Struck in Crosswalk

An 18-year-old was struck by a Honda sedan while crossing Newtown Lane in East Hampton on Saturday evening, near the intersection of Muchmore Lane.

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