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 Sep 14, NJ has 383 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 586. 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 Sep 11 8:46PM	Ocean	Toms River	HOOPER AVE
Tue Sep 9 5:48PM	Bergen	Lyndhurst	17
Tue Sep 9 4:38PM	Union	Elizabeth	1st St
Tue Sep 9 4:32PM	Monmouth	Holmdel	Garden State Parkway
Mon Sep 8 9:25PM	Union	Plainfield	Leland Ave
Mon Sep 8 6:29PM	Essex	Newark	County 603
Mon Sep 8 10:41AM	Sussex	Hardyston	Bourne Cir
Sat Sep 6 4:58PM	Camden	Camden	State Highway 30
Sat Sep 6 9:53AM	Ocean	Lakewood	Shorrock St
Fri Sep 5 10:31PM	Hudson	Union City	40th St
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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.