Sunrise Highway (NY 27) accidents in Brookhaven, NY

What our records show

The Sunrise Highway (NY 27) runs through Brookhaven 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 Brookhaven 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 19 incidents on Sunrise Highway within Brookhaven, including 1 critical, 1 major, 7 moderate cases. No fatalities have been recorded in the incidents we track for this stretch. The most recent report we published involved Left Lane Closed on Eastbound NY 27 in Suffolk County After Friday Crash — August 28 on August 28, 2026. On average, we've seen roughly 2.7 reported crashes per month on this stretch during the period covered by our archive.

Inside Brookhaven, Sunrise Highway intersects with or runs parallel to several other high-volume routes — LIE, Montauk Highway, Northern State 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. Brookhaven is home to about 486,040 residents and falls under SCPD 5th Precinct. Serious injuries from Sunrise Highway crashes are typically triaged to Stony Brook University Hospital. Below you'll find every incident on this stretch we've covered, newest first.