{"id":125248,"date":"2025-10-16T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:30:19","slug":"alec-baldwin-and-brother-stephen-crash-car-into-tree-in-the-hamptons-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125248\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin and brother Stephen crash car into tree in the Hamptons &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alec-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alec Baldwin<\/a> said he and his brother <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/stephen-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stephen Baldwin<\/a> were involved in a collision after he crashed the car he was driving into a tree in the Hamptons on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to Instagram, Alec, 67, said he was driving with his brother in his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/hilaria-baldwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hilaria Baldwin\u2019s<\/a> Range Rover in East Hampton, N.Y., when a large garbage truck caused him to veer off the road and hit \u201ca big, fat tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning, I was in a car accident. A guy cut me off in a truck, a big garbage truck the size of a whale,\u201d Alec said in the video. \u201cIt must have been something commercial, taking away material from a construction site. It was the biggest garbage truck I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I hit a big, fat tree. It crushed my wife\u2019s car\u2026. It\u2019s all fine. I\u2019m fine and my brother\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 30 Rock actor thanked the East Hampton Police Department \u201cfor coming to my aid,\u201d and specifically shouted out an officer named Gerken, whom he called a \u201clovely guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife\u2019s car is pretty smashed up. Big tree, big, fat tree,\u201d Alec repeated before speaking about how proud he is of his wife for competing on Dancing with the\u00a0Stars\u00a0following her recent elimination.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still so proud of my wife. Hilaria, I love you more than anything and I\u2019m very proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hilaria also addressed concerns after Alec\u2019s car crash and shared an update on Instagram with the caption, \u201cThank you for checking in. Alec is ok. Be safe to all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, I\u2019m getting a lot of messages about the accident that Alec was in today, the car accident and I just want you to know he\u2019s OK, Stephen is OK, everybody is OK,\u201d she said. \u201cNo one was hurt and that\u2019s the most important thing. So I love you and thank you, thank you, thank you for caring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11477482\/doug-ford-ev-tariff-response-canola\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CP174795364.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFord says there\u2019s \u2018no damn way\u2019 tariffs on Chinese EVs should be scrapped\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11476983\/marineland-fired-beluga-trainer-speaks-out\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/666bfd906fd4c0422b88303dc1191e89f5c6c856b8924a5d74ba223d7100ff64.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018We need to get them out\u2019: Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stephen\u2019s representative confirmed that he is well following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen is doing fine and is grateful no one was injured,\u201d his rep told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/ca\/news\/1423777\/alec-baldwin-speaks-on-stephen-baldwin-car-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">E! News in a statement<\/a>. \u201cHe appreciates the concern and he can confirm that he and Alec are both safe and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alec and Stephen, 59, were in the Hamptons for the International Film Festival over the weekend to promote their\u00a0One Bad Movie\u00a0podcast series, hosted by Stephen. Alec also <a href=\"https:\/\/hamptonsfilmfest.org\/staff-board\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">serves as a co-chair<\/a> on the board executive committee for the Hamptons International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Entertainment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin said he and his brother Stephen Baldwin were involved in a collision after he crashed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[61970,18,117,19,17,75911],"class_list":{"0":"post-125248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-alec-baldwin","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-stephen-baldwin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}