Southern State Parkway Jun 16 #310869: Right Lane Closed After…

A crash on the eastbound Southern State Parkway at Exit 18 (Eagle Avenue) in Hempstead closed one of three right lanes.

Published

Updated Sep 18, 2026
MINOR INCIDENT
1 Right lane closed lanes affected
eastbound · Hempstead Southern State Parkway
Road
Southern State Parkway
Direction
eastbound
Town
Hempstead
County
nassau County
Reported
Updated
Source
511NY
📌Approximate area — Hempstead centroid Open in Google Maps →

Correction — September 18, 2026: The supporting sources for this archived report were reviewed. Unrelated or unconfirmed source attachments and claims not supported by the retained source record have been removed.

A crash on the eastbound Southern State Parkway at Exit 18 — Eagle Avenue in Hempstead resulted in the closure of one right lane, leaving two of three lanes open.

The single available source is a traffic alert. It does not establish the time of the incident, the number of vehicles involved, the cause, whether anyone was injured, or how long the lane closure lasted. Claims in the previous report about a concurrent drunk-driving crash involving a Nassau County police officer, a misplaced commercial vehicle, emergency construction on NY 27, incident-clustering patterns, and Move Over Law guidance are not supported by the supplied source and have been removed.

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