The 35-year-old woman critically injured in a motorcycle crash on Bluff Road in Amagansett on the night of Oct. 21 has died.
Nicole Greenwood was a passenger on a Honda motorcycle driven by Robert Chase Plachy of Amagansett, 31, who was headed east near the East Hampton Town Marine Museum when he lost control of the vehicle at about 10:45 p.m.
The East Hampton Town Police reported at the time that Ms. Greenwood was not wearing a helmet when she was thrown off the motorcycle. Sustaining injuries that would turn out to be fatal, she was taken by a county helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital, where she was initially listed in critical condition. She died on Monday.
Ms. Greenwood was a traveling nurse based in South Lake Tahoe and a dancer who joined the organization World Dance for Humanity in 2018. Among other career highlights, she traveled with the organization to Rwanda in 2019.
On the World Dance for Humanity website, Ms. Greenwood is described as having a "joie de vivre, vibrant and generous spirit, beautiful smile, and loving heart."
Through the organization, her parents, Sonia and Ken, have asked that in lieu of flowers or cards, donations in their daughter’s memory be made to the Nicole Greenwood Rwanda Education Fund, created by World Dance for Humanity this week “so that children can go to school who would otherwise have no other chance to get an education.”
“Nicole was a beloved member of our organization,” Genevieve Feiner, a World Dance for Humanity executive assistant, said in an email to the Star. “We are heartbroken over this loss.”
Ms. Feiner said in a follow-up phone call that Ms. Greenwood was in the area visiting friends when the accident occurred.
Janet Reineck, founder and executive director of World Dance for Humanity, said news of Ms. Greenwood's passing on Monday had come to the organization via her parents.
Mr. Plachy, whom police charged with driving while intoxicated after the Friday night crash, sustained minor injuries. He was arraigned on the D.W.I. charge on Saturday morning by East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky, who released him on his own recognizance to await a future court date.
The Star has reached out to the town police and the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office to determine whether Ms. Greenwood’s death may lead to additional charges against Mr. Plachy.
This story has been updated since it was first published.
