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

What our records show

The Long Island Expressway (I-495) runs through Melville 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 Melville 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 6 incidents on Long Island Expressway within Melville, including 6 critical cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Family demands stronger charges in Melville DWI crash that killed father on November 24, 2025. On average, we've seen roughly 0.1 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Melville, Long Island Expressway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Route 110, LIE, Northern State Parkway — 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. Melville is home to about 18,985 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.