A fiery car crash on the evening of April 27 left two men injured and a heavy traffic buildup on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton.
Reports indicate two passengers in a sedan driven by Jose Rojas Tigre, 37, of Bellport, were taken to the hospital after the car collided with a pickup truck driven by Juan Paucar, 44, of East Hampton.
Neither driver initially took responsibility for the crash, with each saying the other had caused it. Mr. Paucar told town police he was turning left from Oakview Highway onto Three Mile Harbor Road when the sedan ran into the side of his truck, adding that Mr. Rojas Tigre may have been speeding.
For his part, Mr. Rojas Tigre, who was southbound on Three Mile Harbor, said that he had the right of way and that Mr. Paucar had failed to yield to him.
Police did ticket Mr. Paucar for failing to yield.
A firefighter was on the scene immediately after the crash but it was a Marine Patrol officer who stepped in to extinguish flames on the passenger side of the sedan. The man sitting in front, Wilson Rojas Tigre, 39, sustained bleeding around his eye; the passenger in back, Franklin Espinoza Bermeo, 34, complained of head pain. Both were taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.
Neither of the two drivers, Mr. Paucar and Mr. Rojas Tigre, was injured.
On Saturday morning, a Forest Hills woman, S.B. Markowitz-Neeman, 61, who told police she’d fallen asleep, was injured Saturday morning while driving near Atlantic Drive on Napeague. Her Lexus S.U.V. struck a telephone pole, a tree, and a fence, sustaining damage to its passenger side.
Police said the crash happened about a minute’s drive from the site of the April 28 accident that closed the highway for hours.
Ms. Markowitz-Neeman complained of chest pain and was taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Hospital’s emergency complex in East Hampton. Her passenger, Benjamin Neeman, 23, was uninjured.