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 Jul 18, NJ has 288 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 632. 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 Jul 17 7:45AM	Passaic	Paterson	Madison Ave/8th Ave
Tue Jul 15 12:12PM	Hunterdon	Alexandria	County 519
Tue Jul 15 7:32AM	Essex	East Orange	N. Grove St
Sun Jul 13 3:37AM	Bergen	Edgewater	River Rd
Fri Jul 11 11:46PM	Essex	Newark	State Highway 27
Fri Jul 11 11:19PM	Warren	White	County 519
Thu Jul 10 9:26PM	Middlesex	South Brunswick	State Highway 27
Thu Jul 10 1:13PM	Salem	Pittsgrove	State Highway 40
Tue Jul 8 5:38PM	Mercer	Hamilton	State Highway 33 MP 2.53
Mon Jul 7 11:53AM	Gloucester	Logan	Interstate 295 MP 13.4
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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.