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 Jul 3, NJ has 266 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 629. 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
Wed Jul 2 11:42AM	Morris	Harding	Interstate 287
Wed Jul 2 2:48AM	Union	Union	State Highway 22
Tue Jul 1 12:15AM	Essex	Belleville	County 645
Sun Jun 29 7:04PM	Middlesex	Woodbridge	Garden State Parkway MP 130.2
Sun Jun 29 2:44AM	Salem	Upper Pittsgrove	Colson Rd
Sat Jun 28 10:55PM	Camden	Winslow	State Highway 30
Sat Jun 28 9:43AM	Burlington	Pemberton Twp	County 644
Fri Jun 27 9:27AM	Passaic	Wayne	County 705
Thu Jun 26 1:48PM	Essex	Newark	Ferry St
Wed Jun 25 9:47PM	Middlesex	Edison	State Highway 27
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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.