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 Jun 15, NJ has 235 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 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

Recent fatal crashes

Date/Time	County	Municipality	Location
Fri Jun 13 3:53PM	Hudson	Jersey City	Jersey ave and 6th street
Fri Jun 13 6:47AM	Mercer	Lawrence	546
Thu Jun 12 4:25AM	Essex	Irvington	Garden State Parkway MP 145.7
Wed Jun 11 4:31PM	Burlington	Chesterfield	County 528
Wed Jun 11 11:32AM	Passaic	Hawthorne	County 667
Tue Jun 10 4:52PM	Burlington	Mount Laurel	Diston Ct
Tue Jun 10 7:15AM	Bergen	Mahwah	Interstate 287 MP 65.4
Mon Jun 9 11:18PM	Cumberland	Maurice River	State Highway 47 MP 31.8
Sun Jun 8 9:18AM	Morris	Parsippany-Troy Hills	Interstate 80
Sun Jun 8 7:00AM	Cape May	Middle	State Highway 47 MP 15.1
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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.