Video shows Alex Baldwin's Range Rover crashing into a tree

"A news outlet published dash-cam footage from a garbage truck that it says challenges Alec Baldwin's account of how that commercial vehicle the size of a whale cut him off and forced him to crash his wife's Range Rover head-on into a tree Monday afternoon. Neither Alec Baldwin nor his younger brother Stephen Baldwin, who was a passenger in the Range Rover, was injured in the crash on a rainy Monday afternoon on Montauk Highway, East Hampton."

"In a video shared with his 2.5 million Instagram followers, the 67-year-old Emmy winner said he was driving along the highway and swerved to avoid hitting the truck. Anyway, I won't go into the details, but to avoid hitting him, I hit a tree, Baldwin said. 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."

"Newsmax published a 1-minute, 29-second front-facing video, taken from the garbage truck's cab. Newsmax says it shows the truck exiting a parking lot and appearing to make a legal right turn onto the highway in East Hampton, New York, before Alec Baldwin's white Range Rover comes into view. However, the New York Post points 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."

Dash-cam footage from a garbage truck shows the vehicle exiting a parking lot and turning onto Montauk Highway as Alec Baldwin's white Range Rover approaches. The video shows the Range Rover attempting to pass the truck on the right, then veering onto the shoulder and striking a large tree head-on on a rainy, slippery road. Baldwin and passenger Stephen Baldwin were uninjured. Newsmax characterized the truck's turn as legal while the New York Post noted the truck may have rolled through a stop, reducing Baldwin's reaction time. East Hampton police indicated the Range Rover struck a tree while avoiding the truck's turning action.

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