Southern State Parkway (SSP) accidents in Westbury, NY

What our records show

The Southern State Parkway (SSP) runs through Westbury 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 Westbury 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 3 incidents on Southern State Parkway within Westbury, including 3 critical cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Oceanside Mother Indicted on 20+ Charges in Fatal DWI Crash That Killed Westbury Couple on April 24, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 1.5 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Westbury, Southern State Parkway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Northern State Parkway, Old Country Road, Post 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.

Village context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Westbury is home to about 15,000 residents and falls under NCPD 8th Precinct. Serious injuries from Southern State Parkway crashes are typically triaged to NYU Winthrop Hospital. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.