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 Oct 14, NJ has 452 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 609. 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
Sat Oct 11 10:21PM	Camden	Gloucester Twp	County 689
Sat Oct 11 7:35AM	Monmouth	Marlboro	State Highway 9
Sat Oct 11 1:12AM	Gloucester	Logan	Interstate 295 MP 9.4
Fri Oct 10 7:38PM	Atlantic	Galloway	State Highway 9
Fri Oct 10 12:35PM	Burlington	North Hanover	County 537
Wed Oct 8 7:40PM	Atlantic	Hamilton	State Highway 322
Wed Oct 8 5:55PM	Ocean	Jackson	County 527
Wed Oct 8 7:07AM	Bergen	Ramsey	County 85
Tue Oct 7 8:58PM	Union	Linden	Cranford Ave
Mon Oct 6 9:26PM	Essex	Newark	Mt. Prospect 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.