What Happened
A man died after a BMW struck him while he was crossing Sunrise Highway in Wantagh at 2:48 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, Nassau County police said, according to Patch. News 12 also reported the death but provided no additional details.
Police said the pedestrian was crossing Sunrise Highway northbound. A driver operating a 2026 BMW X3 traveling south on Wantagh Avenue was turning left onto Sunrise Highway when the vehicle struck him.
He was taken to a local hospital, where hospital staff pronounced him dead, police said. The driver remained at the scene, and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
Nassau County police said the intersection was also the site of a fatal pedestrian crash on Sept. 22, 2010, according to Patch.
On This Corridor
Long Island Traffic’s 511NY records show 20 crash records on Sunrise Highway between Aug. 11 and Nov. 8, 2026. That is the sixth-highest count among the 28 Long Island roads LIT tracks. By 511NY’s reported time, crash records on Sunrise Highway cluster in the 7 a.m., 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. hours, with three records in each.
These counts cover Nassau and Suffolk records only. One collision can produce more than one 511 record, so the figures are record counts, not verified crash totals.