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 20, NJ has 601 reported deaths in 2024, and is on pace for 697, exceeding 2023's 606. 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
Sun Nov 17 5:18PM	Camden	Winslow	County 536 (Spur (County Routes Only))
Sun Nov 17 2:02PM	Sussex	Wantage	State Highway 284 MP 7
Sun Nov 17 8:49AM	Gloucester	Woodbury	County 644
Sat Nov 16 7:27PM	Union	Elizabeth	835 Madison Ave
Sat Nov 16 10:30AM	Burlington	Shamong	Tuckerton Rd
Sat Nov 16 5:23AM	Essex	East Orange	Ampere Plz
Fri Nov 15 12:51PM	Bergen	Elmwood Park	Interstate 80
Thu Nov 14 7:36PM	Passaic	Hawthorne	Lafayette Avenue
Thu Nov 14 6:48AM	Atlantic	Egg Harbor City	State Highway 30
Thu Nov 14 5:45AM	Middlesex	Sayreville	State Highway 9
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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.