What Happened
A crash on the westbound Southern State Parkway in Nassau County closed the right lane on Thursday, September 10, 2026. No official time of the incident has been confirmed. The severity was logged as moderate. No additional details on vehicles involved, the number of occupants, injuries, or the sequence of events have been released by police or a responding agency as of this filing.
Location & Road Context
The Southern State Parkway runs east-west across Nassau and Suffolk counties and carries heavy commuter and commercial traffic between the island’s suburban interior and New York City connections. No specific exit or cross-street was identified in the incident record.
The corridor has recorded 64 incidents in the past 30 days and 233 in 2026, according to Long Island Traffic’s incident registry. Five days before this crash, on September 5, 2026, a fatal crash on the Southern State Parkway involved a Lindenhurst driver traveling at 121 mph. Nassau County has logged 1,281 recorded accidents in Long Island Traffic’s local incident database in 2026.
Thursday also saw a moderate crash on NY 135 and a minor crash on I-495, both on the same day, adding to pressure on parallel Nassau County corridors.