What Happened
A minor crash on westbound I-495 in Queens County blocked the left lane on Friday, August 28, 2026. No additional details on the time of the collision, the vehicles involved, or any injuries have been confirmed in the available official record.
The left lane remained affected following the crash. No agency has released names of those involved or a cause of the collision.
Location & Road Context
I-495, the Long Island Expressway, carries heavy westbound volume through Queens on Friday afternoons as commuters and weekend travelers funnel toward the Midtown Tunnel and the borough’s surface grid. A left-lane block on a Friday on this stretch typically produces backups that ripple east through Nassau County.
According to Long Island Traffic’s incident registry, this crash is one of 103 recorded on the I-495 corridor in the past 30 days. The corridor has logged 413 incidents in 2026. The most recent prior fatal crash on I-495 was recorded August 26, 2026. Five additional crashes on I-495 were logged on August 26 and 27 alone: a minor crash Aug. 27, a moderate crash Aug. 27, a minor crash on the I-495 Lower Level Aug. 27, and two minor crashes on Aug. 26. Long Island Traffic’s incident registry shows 299 total recorded accidents in Queens County in 2026.
Source data drawn from the 511NY incident record for this event. No additional agency press release or news report was available at time of publication. This report will be updated when further details are confirmed.