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 Nov 10, NJ has 493 reported deaths in 2025, and is on pace for 573. 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
Sun Nov 9 6:41PM	Camden	Bellmawr	Interstate 76
Sun Nov 9 6:05PM	Atlantic	Egg Harbor Twp	State Highway 40
Sun Nov 9 5:46PM	Gloucester	West Deptford	County 642 MP 1.21
Sun Nov 9 4:20PM	Camden	Voorhees	County 544
Sun Nov 9 3:14AM	Somerset	Franklin	Interstate 287
Sat Nov 8 3:00PM	Bergen	Lodi	Essex St
Thu Nov 6 9:00AM	Gloucester	Monroe	State Highway 42
Wed Nov 5 10:17PM	Union	Elizabeth	State Highway 27
Wed Nov 5 9:23PM	Salem	Mannington	County 540
Wed Nov 5 5:48PM	Mercer	Hamilton	County 622
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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.