Montauk Highway (NY 27A) accidents in Montauk, NY

What our records show

The Montauk Highway (NY 27A) runs through Montauk as one of the 95-mile primary corridors serving Suffolk County, carrying roughly 30,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 30–55 mph (varies by segment). The route stretches from Amityville–Copiague line (continues west as Merrick Road) to Montauk Point State Park (Montauk, Suffolk County), with Montauk sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as Montauk Hwy or Route 27A or NY 27A or West Montauk Highway or East Montauk Highway or CR 80 or County Route 80 or Main Street or South Country Road.

Our database has logged 2 incidents on Montauk Highway within Montauk, including 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 Alan Vasquez & Joshua Semander: Two DWI Arrests Hours Apart on Montauk Highway in East Quogue and Water Mill on July 7, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.7 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Montauk, Montauk Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Old Montauk Highway, West Lake Drive, Edgemere 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.

Town context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Montauk is home to about 3,300 residents . Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.