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 2001-2021. 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 Apr 27, NJ has 193 reported deaths in 2024, and is on pace for 727, exceeding 2023's 607. 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

Date/Time	County	Municipality	Location
Tue Apr 23 7:40AM	Middlesex	South Brunswick	State Highway 1
Tue Apr 23 5:56AM	Middlesex	South Brunswick	County 535
Mon Apr 22 2:17AM	Mercer	Robbinsville	New Jersey Turnpike MP 64.1
Sun Apr 21 6:11PM	Camden	Pennsauken	State Highway 130
Sun Apr 21 5:00AM	Union	Plainfield	E. 3rd St
Sat Apr 20 9:46PM	Camden	Winslow	State Highway 30
Sat Apr 20 12:07PM	Bergen	Edgewater	Dempsey Ave
Sat Apr 20 2:49AM	Camden	Gloucester Twp	Old Black Horse Pk
Fri Apr 19 10:12PM	Atlantic	Hammonton	County 561 (Spur (County Routes Only))
Thu Apr 18 9:03PM	Camden	Cherry Hill	State Highway 41
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NJ Traffic Deaths per Year

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

Traffic crashes kill 1.5-2x as many people as homicides in NJ.

Homicide data comes from NJ State Police and Disaster Center.

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).

The data currently ends in 2021, after a drop in all types of crashes due to COVID, and mid-way through a spike in fatal crashes in 2021-2022 (based on the NJSP data above). 2022 data should land in early 2024.