Hampton Bays fisherman Michael Forman, 63, was killed this week in a two-car accident on Sunrise Highway in Manorville.
The Suffolk County Police Department reported that on the afternoon of January 8, Forman was driving a 2021 Ford F-150 on Route 27 between William Floyd Parkway and Wading River Road and headed west when his vehicle “sideswiped a 2022 Nissan Sentra” driven by Alisa Coffey-Hamilton.
Forman’s vehicle then struck a tree on the north side of the road, while Coffey-Hamilton’s vehicle “struck the guide wire in the median.”
Coffey-Hamilton, 41, of East Patchogue was hospitalized for the treatment of minor injuries. Forman was pronounced dead at the scene. Both drivers were the sole occupants of their respective vehicles.
Southampton Town Trustee President Scott Horowitz recalled that Michael Forman and his late father, Charles “Chuck” Forman, “would fish charters for years” on a family boat called the Sandra Jeanne.
“I recall presenting his father the Captain of the Year award back in the day,” Horowitz said, noting of the son that the apple had not fallen far from the tree and that the family was “very involved with the Shinnecock Marlin and Tuna Club.”
“He was known as an excellent fisherman” Horowitz said of Michael Forman.
His father died in 2009. His mother, Jean Forman, died a year earlier.
