Long Island Expressway (I-495) accidents in Dix Hills, NY

What our records show

The Long Island Expressway (I-495) runs through Dix Hills as one of the 66-mile primary expressways serving Suffolk County, carrying roughly 200,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 55 mph (50 mph in Queens). The route stretches from Queens Midtown Tunnel (Manhattan) to County Route 58 (CR 58), Calverton / Riverhead (Suffolk County), with Dix Hills sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as LIE or L.I.E or LIE highway or L.I.E highway or The Expressway or Interstate 495 or I-495 or 495 or 495 highway or Route 495.

Our database has logged 3 incidents on Long Island Expressway within Dix Hills, including 2 major, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Taysi Abdallah, 38, of Westbury Seriously Injured as Honda Overturns off LIE in Dix Hills on June 27, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 1.5 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Dix Hills, Long Island Expressway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — LIE, Northern State Parkway, Deer Park Avenue — so many crashes on this corridor originate at exits and interchanges rather than along open stretches. That pattern matches what we see in the incident reports below, which cluster around entry and exit ramps feeding those surface streets.

Town context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Dix Hills is home to about 26,000 residents and falls under SCPD 2nd Precinct. Serious injuries from Long Island Expressway crashes are typically triaged to Huntington Hospital (Northwell Health). Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.