Peter Kirwin of Hampton Bays was southbound on June 26 in a Fowler’s Garden Center truck on Route 114 when, near Swamp Road, he noticed traffic was piling up. Not in time to stop, however. The truck ran into the back of a 2005 Triumph motorcycle driven by Paul Glanz of East Hampton, 75, who complained of back pain and was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. Mr. Kirwin, 45, was not hurt.
Later that day, sun glare may have played a role in an accident involving a bicyclist, on East Lake Drive in Montauk, near Big Reed Path. Christopher Skurka of Islip, 23, was headed north in a 2015 Toyota pickup truck when his side-view mirror struck a car driven by Maureen Smith, 47, of Kings Park. Mr. Skurka told police that the sun prevented him from seeing her car in time. Ms. Smith received a bad bruise that sent her to Stony Brook Southampton in an ambulance. Mr. Skurka was uninjured.
On Saturday morning, rain slicked the roads, and didn’t help when Gilberto Flores, 34, of Hampton Bays, slammed on the brakes of his 2015 Honda to avoid — unsucessfully, as it turned out — a 2021 Lexus S.U.V. with Ancizar Cardona, 56, of Amagansett at the wheel. The Honda skidded along Three Mile Harbor Road and into the back of the Lexus. Mr. Cardona complained of whiplash, but did not require hospitalization.
