Several people were injured in a collision in Springs between a Honda S.U.V. and a Jeep on Christmas Eve.
Johnny V. Nasipucha Bermeo, 34, who was driving the Honda, told town police he was southbound on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road near Boat Yard Road when the Jeep, approaching from the opposite direction, swerved into his lane, striking the driver’s side of his car. His leg was injured in the impact, and his passengers, E.V. Romero Jimenez, 65, and a 2-year-old child, both sustained facial injuries. All three were taken by ambulance to the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department.
The driver of the Jeep, a 24-year-old East Hampton man, told police he’d fallen asleep while headed in the opposite direction. Officers reportedly observed multiple indications of
Both vehicles were towed by Fireplace Auto Collision.
A few days earlier, on the morning of Dec. 22, George M. Watson of Montauk, 81, who was riding his bicycle west on Main Street in the hamlet, was injured in a collision with a van.
Mr. Watson, the longtime owner of the Dock bar and restaurant on the harbor, told town police he was turning right onto South Embassy Street when he was struck by the van. Luis A. Quichimbo of Montauk, 55, the van’s driver, stated that he had not seen the cyclist while turning right from South Embassy. Neither he nor his passenger, A.C. Tacuri Baculima, 49, was injured.
Mr. Watson, who reportedly sustained minor cuts to his face, was taken by ambulance to the emergency room for evaluation.
Town police also released the report of an accident that took place in the early hours of Dec. 6 in Amagansett, sending two occupants of a Ford pickup truck to the emergency room. The truck collided with a telephone pole along Abraham’s Path, near the intersection of Asa’s Path, and overturned on the side of the road at around 1:40 a.m.
When police arrived, William Todd Bennett of East Hampton, 23, reportedly told them that “a man named Patrick” had been driving, and had got out through a side door and run away into the woods. He himself had exited the truck through a broken rear window, he said, and had pulled another passenger, Joseph A. Hawkins, 34, out behind him.
Upon further investigation, police determined that Mr. Bennett had been driving. He sustained minor facial cuts, and Mr. Hawkins complained of hip pain; both men were taken by ambulance to the Pantigo Place emergency room. V & V Auto Service of Amagansett collected the truck.
