What Happened
A car overturned on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway near Exit 9 at approximately 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 13, 2026, according to police. The driver was uninjured. No arrests were made.
News 12 Long Island published the initial report at 12:37 p.m. Thursday and reported that photos from the scene showed the car’s windows smashed to pieces. Police did not specify the vehicle’s make, model, or direction of travel, and no cause for the rollover was publicly released.
No additional occupants were mentioned in the News 12 Long Island report. The driver’s name, age, and hometown were not disclosed. No charges were filed as of the report’s publication.
Location & Road Context
Exit 9 on the Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway (NY 135) sits in Nassau County, roughly mid-corridor between the Southern State Parkway to the south and the Long Island Expressway to the north. The expressway is a limited-access north-south route carrying significant commuter volume between those two major arteries.
According to Long Island Traffic’s incident registry, Wednesday’s rollover is one of two recorded incidents on the NY 135 corridor in the past 30 days, and the seventh on the corridor in 2026. The most recent prior crash on the road logged in the registry occurred July 2, 2026. An overturned vehicle on NY 135 had also been reported the previous day, August 12.