Long Island Expressway (I-495) accidents in Oyster Bay, NY

What our records show

The Long Island Expressway (I-495) runs through Oyster Bay as one of the 66-mile primary expressways serving Nassau County, carrying roughly 200,000 vehicles per day. The posted speed limit is 55 mph (50 mph in Queens). The route stretches from Queens Midtown Tunnel (Manhattan) to County Route 58 (CR 58), Calverton / Riverhead (Suffolk County), with Oyster Bay sitting along that spine. Locally, drivers know it as LIE or L.I.E or LIE highway or L.I.E highway or The Expressway or Interstate 495 or I-495 or 495 or 495 highway or Route 495.

Our database has logged 17 incidents on Long Island Expressway within Oyster Bay, including 10 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Two Right Lanes Closed After Crash on Eastbound I-495 in Nassau County on July 18, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 5.7 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Oyster Bay, Long Island Expressway 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 Long Island Expressway crashes are typically triaged to Syosset Hospital (Northwell Health). Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.