Southern State Parkway (SSP) accidents in Oceanside, NY

What our records show

The Southern State Parkway (SSP) runs through Oceanside 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 Oceanside 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 13 incidents on Southern State Parkway within Oceanside, including 12 critical, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Oceanside Woman Indicted for Fatal Wrong-Way DWI Crash That Killed 2 Pastors on April 27, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 6.5 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Oceanside, Southern State Parkway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Sunrise Highway, Long Beach Road, Atlantic Avenue — 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. Oceanside is home to about 32,000 residents . Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.