Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Bay Shore, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Bay Shore as one of the 100-mile primary corridors serving Suffolk County, carrying roughly 80,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 55 mph (limited-access sections); 40–45 mph (signalized commercial corridors). The route stretches from Valley Stream (Nassau County) to Montauk Point (Suffolk County), with Bay Shore sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as Sunrise Hwy or Route 27 or NY-27 or NY 27 or State Route 27 or Sunrise or state-route-27 or ny-route-27 or route-27.

Our database has logged 4 incidents on Sunrise Highway within Bay Shore, including 3 critical, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Bay Shore Man Seriously Injured in Late-Night Patchogue Motorcycle Rear-End Crash on May 23, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.3 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Bay Shore, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Southern State Parkway, Sagtikos Parkway, 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.

Town context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Bay Shore is home to about 26,380 residents and falls under SCPD 3rd Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Southside Hospital (Northwell Health). Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.