On the afternoon of July 24, a Honda sedan struck four people who were standing on a porch in front of the Montauk Brewing Company on South Erie Avenue. All were shaken up and assessed by responders from the Montauk Fire Department, but declined further treatment.
The driver, Charlotte Andre of Rutherford, N.J., 31, told East Hampton Town police she’d been trying to park her Honda out front of the business, and, thinking it was in park, stepped on the gas pedal. The car lurched forward into a fence separating the parking lot from the business, and then onto the porch.
Seth Angelico, 33, Gregory Caputo, 40, Brandon Goldsborough, 51, and a juvenile all sustained minor injuries, according to the report. Neither Ms. Andre nor her passenger, Stacy Vallejo, 27, was injured. The front of the car was damaged, and it was collected by Marshalls Towing.
On Friday, also in Montauk, a Volvo S.U.V. struck an e-bike on Main Street at the intersection of South Eagle Street, resulting in injuries to the 13-year-old bicyclist.
Lily Nguyen Sachs of Brooklyn, 34, the driver, was waiting at the Eagle Street stop sign, she told police, and had begun to enter the intersection after seeing a gap in traffic. She was turning left onto Main Street, she said, when the bike “came out of nowhere” and into the path of the Volvo.
The 13-year-old sustained cuts to both arms and legs, and to his chin, and was transported by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for treatment. Ms. Sachs was not hurt.
On Saturday evening. Mike Arreola of East Hampton, 35, driving a Nissan sedan on Route 114 in East Hampton, had just passed the South Breeze Drive intersection when, he said, a Toyota that had been stopped on the shoulder suddenly turned left into his lane of travel, causing his car to strike it on the driver’s side. Lynn Zucker of East Hampton, 73, the driver of the Toyota, told police she was attempting to make a U-turn across the highway and had checked her rearview mirror but did not see the oncoming Nissan. Mr. Arreola complained of pain in his knee but refused medical attention; his two juvenile passengers were uninjured, as was Ms. Zucker. Both cars were towed by Rapid Recovery.
Two other reports of accidents involving injuries occurred in late June but were not released by town police until this week. On the night of June 21, Orfa Torres Diaz of East Hampton, 30, was driving a Toyota sedan on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton, near the intersection of Neighborhood House Drive, when, she told police, an oncoming brown Hyundai sedan crossed the double yellow lines into her lane of travel and struck her car head-on.
The Hyundai’s driver, Fabian Montaleza of East Hampton, 50, stated that he thought the Toyota had swerved into his lane, and that he’d “attempted to avoid the collision,” but did not know what happened next. Police at the scene had him perform a series of field sobriety tests and reported he had done poorly. He was placed under arrest, charged with driving while intoxicated as a first offense, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors.
He complained of head, neck, and chest pain as a result of the impact and was transported by ambulance to the Stony Brook Emergency Department here, where he was admitted for further evaluation and eventually released on an appearance ticket. He was to have appeared in East Hampton Town Justice Court for arraignment yesterday.
Ms. Torres Diaz, the Toyota driver, complained of pain in her chest; her passenger, Jhony Rivera-Avila, 30, sustained an injury to his upper arm. They too were treated at the Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department. Both cars had some front-end damage but remained operational.
Finally, on the afternoon of June 22, an Infiniti sedan struck a Cadillac S.U.V. on Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton as both vehicles were approaching the Bull Path intersection. Jeremy Beauplan of Medford, 22, who was driving the Infiniti, stated that he’d glanced down at his phone “to retrieve a Grubhub order” and had driven into the Cadillac in front of him while distracted.
The Cadillac’s driver, Ilana Yuz-Brodsky of Miami, 41, told police she’d slowed down to make a right turn when she was rear-ended. She was taken by a private vehicle to the East Hampton Emergency Department for “precautionary evaluation.”
The Infiniti sustained damage to its front end and undercarriage and was removed from the scene. The back of the S.U.V. was damaged but did not have to be towed.
