Actor and Long Island native Alec Baldwin escaped injury after crashing his wife's SUV into a tree Monday morning in East Hampton, he confirmed in a video he posted on Instagram .

The "30 Rock" star, who grew up in Massapequa , said he was driving with his brother and fellow actor Stephen Baldwin when he swerved to avoid hitting what he described as a garbage truck "the size of a whale."

"I hit a tree, a big fat tree," Baldwin said on his personal Instagram, adding that he was "fine."

Published photographs from the crash show a white Range Rover, which Baldwin referred to as his wife Hilaria's vehicle, with front-end damage and resting against the tree on what appears to be a residential property.

Baldwin thanked the East Hampton Town Police Department and Officer Ian Gerken for hi

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