Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Patchogue, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Patchogue 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 Patchogue 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 3 incidents on Sunrise Highway within Patchogue, including 1 critical cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Overnight Closures Hit Sunrise Highway at Exit 55 in East Patchogue for Four Weeks on June 1, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.3 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Patchogue, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — 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.

Village context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Patchogue is home to about 12,440 residents and falls under SCPD 5th Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.