Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Wantagh, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Wantagh 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 Wantagh 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 Wantagh. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved NYSDOT: Two Westbound Sunrise Highway Lanes Close Nightly Sept. 8 from Babylon to Wantagh on September 3, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 0.7 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

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

Town context matters because accidents here don't unfold in isolation. Wantagh is home to about 18,000 residents and falls under NCPD 7th Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Mount Sinai South Nassau. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.