Southern State Parkway (SSP) accidents in West Hempstead, NY

What our records show

The Southern State Parkway (SSP) runs through West 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 West 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 2 incidents on Southern State Parkway within West Hempstead, including 2 critical cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved One person dead in Southern State Parkway crash on April 5, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 1.0 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside West Hempstead, Southern State Parkway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead Avenue, Nassau Boulevard — 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. West Hempstead is home to about 20,000 residents . Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.