Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Southampton, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Southampton 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 Southampton 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 Southampton, including 1 critical, 1 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Left Lane Blocked by Disabled Vehicle on Eastbound NY 27 in Suffolk County on June 15, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.5 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Southampton, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — Montauk Highway, North Sea Road, County Road 39 — 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. Southampton is home to about 4,000 residents and falls under Southampton Town Police Department. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.