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 Feb 3, NJ has 39 reported deaths in 2026, and is on pace for 570. 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 Jan 31 5:33PM	Essex	Newark	Clinton Ave
Fri Jan 30 6:18PM	Salem	Pittsgrove	State Highway 56 MP 7.2
Thu Jan 29 8:59PM	Burlington	Mount Laurel	New Jersey Turnpike MP 39.6
Thu Jan 29 5:20AM	Union	Linden	New Jersey Turnpike
Fri Jan 23 8:51PM	Ocean	Toms River	State Highway 37
Thu Jan 22 7:56PM	Union	Linden	State Highway 1
Wed Jan 21 10:25AM	Middlesex	Woodbridge	Smith St
Tue Jan 20 11:04PM	Salem	Mannington	Mannington Yorktown Rd
Tue Jan 20 4:08PM	Atlantic	Hamilton	County 559
Tue Jan 20 8:15AM	Atlantic	Hammonton	State Highway 30 (Freeway)
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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.