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 Dec 12, NJ has 541 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 562. 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 Dec 10 6:11PM	Salem	Penns Grove	State Highway 130 MP 3.7
Wed Dec 10 5:53PM	Morris	Denville	Pocono Rd
Tue Dec 9 10:09PM	Middlesex	Carteret	County 643
Tue Dec 9 6:27AM	Hudson	North Bergen	Bergenline Ave
Mon Dec 8 8:50PM	Burlington	Westampton	Interstate 295
Mon Dec 8 6:42PM	Camden	Cherry Hill	County 644
Mon Dec 8 5:08PM	Ocean	Berkeley	County 530
Sun Dec 7 1:38PM	Mercer	East Windsor	New Jersey Turnpike MP 64.6
Sat Dec 6 7:29PM	Camden	Gloucester City	Interstate 76
Fri Dec 5 5:40PM	Cumberland	Millville	Wheaton Ave
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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.