Southern State Parkway (SSP) accidents in Hempstead, NY

What our records show

The Southern State Parkway (SSP) runs through Hempstead as one of the 30-mile primary parkways serving Nassau 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 Hempstead 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 70 incidents on Southern State Parkway within Hempstead, including 10 critical, 2 major, 19 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Left Lane Closed After Minor Crash on Eastbound Southern State Parkway in Nassau County on August 7, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 7.0 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Hempstead, Southern State Parkway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Hempstead Turnpike, Meadowbrook Parkway, LIE — 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. Hempstead is home to about 55,247 residents and falls under NCPD 5th Precinct. Serious injuries from Southern State Parkway crashes are typically triaged to Nassau University Medical Center. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.