Long Island crashes: Explore an interactive map of incidents from 2022-25

Newsday has launched an updated crash map showing the locations of 2025 motor vehicle crashes, adding to an earlier version that covered the previous three years.

The new map, with data from the New York State Department of Transportation, is preliminary and subject to updates, but it provides a geographical overview of some of the most crash-prone areas. Users can zoom in to view crashes by severity levels in their neighborhood. 

Meanwhile, the federal government on Wednesday released a new estimate showing fatalities fell by about 6.7% nationwide last year, and by about 8.2% in New York. 

"If realized, the estimated percentage decrease for 2025 would ... [bring] total fatalities back to the pre-pandemic levels seen in 2019," the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration wrote.

However, fatalities in Nassau County rose last year, as Newsday previously reported.

Official county-level data will not be finalized until later in the year, but Newsday’s fatality tracker, based off police news releases, already shows at least 163 deaths in 2025 — 78 in Nassau (up from an official toll of 67 in 2024) and 85 in Suffolk (less than 2024's official toll of 118, suggesting an improvement, though that number could rise).

Overall, at least 59,359 crashes were reported across the Island in 2025, although this is certain to be an undercount due to delays in data compilation between state and police agencies.

Fatalities spiked during the pandemic, in part because drivers were more prone to speed as roadways opened up, according to AAA.

Relative to population, more Americans are still dying in traffic crashes than residents of any European country. The new national preliminary tally of 36,640 deaths in 2025 represents about 10.7 fatalities per 100,000 residents. While that is an improvement from 11.5 the prior year, it is still about seven times higher than Norway, five times higher than Sweden and more than four times higher than Denmark, based on the EU’s 2024 figures.

Traffic crashes were the leading cause of accidental death among young people 5-19 on Long Island from 2018 to 2024, and they were the second-leading cause among all Long Islanders under 80 after drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control.