Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Islip, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Islip 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 Islip 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 14 incidents on Sunrise Highway within Islip, including 1 major, 5 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved NYDOT Closes Westbound Sunrise Highway Between Exits 51–53 Overnight July 20 for Pavement Repairs in Brookhaven and Islip on July 17, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 4.7 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Islip, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — LIE, Southern State Parkway, Sagtikos Parkway — 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. Islip is home to about 335,543 residents and falls under SCPD 3rd Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Southside Hospital (Northwell Health). Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.