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 71-mile primary expressways serving Suffolk County, carrying roughly 200,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 55 mph. The route stretches from Queens Midtown Tunnel (Manhattan) to Riverhead (Suffolk County), with Melville sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as LIE or The Expressway.

Our database has logged 5 incidents on Long Island Expressway within Melville, including 2 critical, 1 major, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Massive Sinkhole Nearly Swallows Car on LIE in Melville, Lanes Closed on May 14, 2026. 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.