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

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Oyster Bay as one of the 100-mile primary corridors serving Nassau 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 Oyster Bay 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 2 incidents on Sunrise Highway within Oyster Bay, including 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Left-Shoulder Blocked on Westbound NY 27 in Nassau County — August 31 on August 31, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 2.0 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Oyster Bay, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Route 25A, Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway, South Street — 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. Oyster Bay is home to about 6,700 residents and falls under NCPD 8th Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Syosset Hospital (Northwell Health). Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.