NJ Traffic Crash Data

The first 6 plots below come from NJ State Police fatal crash data (2008-present). It's generally current to the previous day.

Below that are plots of NJ DOT raw crash data, which includes 6MM property-damage, injury, and fatal crashes from 2001-2022. It's a richer dataset, but less up to date.

Work in progress map of NJDOT data: 5 years (2017-2021) of fatal and injury crashes in Hudson County:

Full screen map here
Code and cleaned data are here on GitHub.

Car Crash Deaths:

Click/Double-click the legend labels to toggle or solo each type.

As of Nov 29, NJ has 525 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 575. More state-wide data.

2021 and 2022 were the worst years in the NJSP record (since 2008), with 697 and 689 deaths, resp.

Source: NJ State Police

Recent fatal crashes

Date/Time	County	Municipality	Location
Thu Nov 27 12:19AM	Cape May	Middle	Garden State Parkway
Wed Nov 26 10:25PM	Bergen	Fair Lawn	State Highway 208
Wed Nov 26 4:24PM	Middlesex	South Brunswick	New Rd
Mon Nov 24 5:06PM	Gloucester	Washington	County 654
Mon Nov 24 6:26AM	Hudson	Jersey City	State Highway 1
Mon Nov 24 2:12AM	Cumberland	Vineland	County 655
Sun Nov 23 4:06PM	Passaic	West Milford	State Highway 23
Sat Nov 22 11:06PM	Passaic	Paterson	Cianci St
Sat Nov 22 5:06PM	Camden	Voorhees	White Horse Rd
Fri Nov 21 5:25AM	Morris	Roxbury	Interstate 80
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Source: NJ State Police

NJ Traffic Deaths – YTD

Source: NJ State Police

Some data arrives weeks or months after the fact, so current year numbers are especially subject to change.

NJ Traffic Deaths vs. Homicides

Car crashes kill twice as many people as homicides, in NJ.

In 2022, crashes killed 2.4x as many people, the largest disparity on record.

Homicide data comes from NJ State Police and Disaster Center.

NJ Traffic Deaths per Month

NJ Traffic Deaths, grouped by month

NJ DOT Raw Crash Data

NJ DOT publishes raw crash data, including property-damage, injury, and fatal crashes, going back to 2001 (≈6MM records).

Data is currently public through 2022, showing all crash types rebounding from COVID lows, and a particular spike in fatalities. 2023 data is expected in Fall 2025.