Neither Alec Baldwin nor his youthful brother Stephen Baldwin, who was a passenger within the Vary Rover, was injured within the crash on a wet Monday afternoon on Montauk Freeway, East Hampton.
In a video shared along with his 2.5 million Instagram followers, the 67-year-old Emmy winner mentioned he was driving alongside the freeway and swerved to keep away from hitting the truck.
“Anyway, I won’t go into the details, but to avoid hitting him, I hit a tree,” Baldwin mentioned. “I hit a big fat tree, and crushed my car and my wife’s car. I feel bad about that, but it’s all fine, and I’m fine, and my brother’s fine.”
Nonetheless, the New York Publish factors out that the video “arguably shows the garbage truck roll through a stop before making a turn, giving Baldwin little time to slow down on a clearly wet and slippery road.”
In both case, about 30 seconds into the video, Baldwin’s Vary Rover seems to aim to move the truck on the precise, earlier than veering onto the shoulder and hanging a big tree head-on. The video additionally exhibits the Vary Rover’s crumpled entrance finish, whereas images captured Baldwin exterior his car, making a cellphone name.
The New York Publish mentioned that East Hampton police seem to again up Baldwin’s account. In a press release, the division’s chief, Michael Sarlo, mentioned that the Vary Rover “was found to have struck a tree on the Eastbound shoulder of the roadway while avoiding the turning action of a 2020 Mack commercial truck, registered to National Waste Services out of Bay Shore, NY.”
The chief additionally mentioned there have been no reported accidents and summons wouldn’t be issued. He mentioned the contributing elements to the accident “were found to be a reaction to an uninvolved vehicle and the slippery and wet roadway conditions.”
Initially Revealed: October 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM PDT
