Long Island Expressway (I-495) accidents in Glen Cove, NY

What our records show

The Long Island Expressway (I-495) runs through Glen Cove as one of the 66-mile primary expressways serving Nassau 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 Glen Cove sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as LIE or The Expressway or Interstate 495 or I-495.

Our database has logged 6 incidents on Long Island Expressway within Glen Cove, including 1 critical, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Disabled Vehicle Closes Left Lane on Westbound LIE in Nassau County on June 7, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 1.2 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Glen Cove, Long Island Expressway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Glen Cove Road, Forest Avenue, Brewster Street — 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.

City context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Glen Cove is home to about 28,000 residents . Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.