Southern State Parkway (SSP) accidents in Amityville, NY

What our records show

The Southern State Parkway (SSP) runs through Amityville as one of the 30-mile primary parkways serving Suffolk County, carrying roughly 120,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 55 mph. The route stretches from Valley Stream (Nassau/Queens border) to Heckscher State Park (East Islip), with Amityville sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as Southern State or SSP or southern-stpkwy or southern-state-pkwy or southern-state-pky.

Our database has logged 2 incidents on Southern State Parkway within Amityville, including 2 critical cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Justin Osorio of Amityville Indicted in Fatal Southern State Crash Near Exit 19N on July 2, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.2 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Amityville, Southern State Parkway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Sunrise Highway, Route 110, Montauk Highway — 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.

Village context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Amityville is home to about 9,500 residents and falls under SCPD 3rd Precinct. Serious injuries from Southern State Parkway crashes are typically triaged to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.